The Bobigny prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday the lifting of the custody of two police officers from the Stains BAC who had seriously injured two people with bullets overnight from Sunday to Monday during an intervention. It was filmed and widely shared on social media.
The Bobigny public prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday the lifting of the police custody of two police officers who had seriously injured two people in Stains, on the night of Sunday to Monday, during an intervention filmed and widely broadcast on social networks. The two police officers from the anti-crime brigade (BAC) of Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis) had been placed in police custody on Monday afternoon for attempted voluntary homicide within the framework of the investigation carried out by the IGPN (Inspection general of the national police) on the use of their firearms. A third policeman was also heard as a witness. “The first elements of this investigation (…) led the prosecution to rule out the intention of homicide. Police custody was ended at 3:15 p.m.“, announced the prosecution in a press release.
“A judicial inquiry will be opened in the coming days.“, specifies the public ministry. Me Yassine Bouzrou, lawyer of the young man wounded by the shootings, indicated to AFP to have filed a complaint for attempted voluntary homicide and forgery in public writing, as well as a request for expatriation, confirming information from Mediapart.The police put forward self-defense, that’s not what I see in the images“said the lawyer.”When you shoot eight times at a stationary vehicle, I don’t see where the self-defense is“, added Me Bouzrou.
45 and 100 days of ITT
The incident occurred on Monday around 1:30 a.m. The two police officers aged 27 and 30 then tried to control a vehicle, with a driver and a passenger on board, boulevard Maxime Gorki in Stains, traced a source close to the investigation interviewed by AFP. The car had first come to a stop near the police, then reversed to try to get out of control. One of the officials then tried to get into the vehicle to stop it, but the car had started to roll again, continued the same source close to the investigation.
A video from the “Echo of the suburbs” media, massively shared on social networks, shows the two police officers firing several times in the direction of the car. The 27-year-old driver was hit by “at least three hits“bullets, which wounded him”chest, arm and pubis“, detailed a source close to the file, specifying that he was issued 45 days of ITT (total incapacity for work). The passenger, lying on the back seat, received a bullet in the back and one hundred days of ITT have been assigned to him.”Their vital prognosis is no longer engaged“, according to the prosecution.
For their part, they are both targeted by an investigation for refusal to comply and attempted homicide of a person holding public authority, led by the judicial police of the department.
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