A man who roamed Tuesday in the night armed with a rifle in the streets of Fort-de-France was killed by police after firing on the police, learned AFP from the prosecutor's office and Prefecture. Tuesday at 3:30, "in the city center of Fort-de-France, an armed individual opened fire on the police, injuring one of them, to oppose his arrest," said the prefecture from Martinique that "the retaliatory fire resulted in the death of the armed individual".
No vital prognosis for the police officer
The public prosecutor for his part said that the injured policeman had been on the flank and the right arm, by forty pellets. The aggressor, who was walking on foot armed with a rifle, "would have immediately opened fire" on the police who wanted to control him and would have refused "to stop despite the summons", according to the prosecution. One of the police "neutralized then the individual, mortally hit by a bullet in the thorax".
"The individual is not identified yet," added the prosecutor. As for the injured policeman, "he was immediately evacuated to the hospital of Fort-de-France" and "his vital prognosis is not engaged". The public prosecutor's office, which was transported to the scene, seized the judicial police which opened an investigation for attempted murder on persons holding public authority, as well as the General Inspectorate of the National Police on the conditions of opening of fire, taking into account the death of the shooter.