Friday, February 18, the court of Bobigny sentenced to two years in prison a motorist seriously injured, six months ago almost to the day, by the shootings of two police officers from the anti-crime brigade (BAC) of Stains (Seine-Saint -Denis). The 37-year-old man, who appeared free, was placed under a warrant and immediately imprisoned.
He was also ordered to pay 15,000 euros in damages to the police after being found guilty of “refusal to comply” and “violence with a weapon” – in this case, his car. A decision he appealed. “The whole thing, considers his lawyer Me Yassine Bouzrou, at the end of a pseudo-hearing chaired by a civil magistrate who did not master criminal matters and assessors who had clearly not read the entire file. »
Friday’s trial is the first legal step in a case that sparked heated controversy after the broadcast, on the Twitter account of Echo of the suburbs, a participatory medium, of a short, particularly violent video sequence. The images, filmed from the passenger compartment of a vehicle which, at the time of the shooting, was taking Boulevard Maxime-Gorki around 1:30 a.m. on the night of August 15 to 16, 2021, showed two police officers without any signs. distinctive attempt to bring a dark vehicle to a standstill before firing, from a very close range, at the occupants of the car. The driver, a repeat offender, unfavorably known to the police, had been hit by six impacts to the arm, chest and pubis; his companion had been hit by two projectiles.
Two contradictory versions of the facts
A few hours later, in another video sequence posted on its own social networks, the Paris Police Prefecture had delivered a version of the facts at the end of which the officials of the BAC were “came to check on the driver of a vehicle who, after switching off the ignition, [l’avait] handed over and suddenly reversed, hitting the police officer who was in protection”. A second policeman would have been dragged on “several meters by the driver of the vehicle, who [avait] take a step forward ».
However, the video shot by the anonymous motorist undermined this presentation of the facts: admittedly, the car checked by the police had indeed tried to initiate a maneuver to escape them – the driver affirmed that at that time, he didn’t know they were police officers – but she had almost immediately been targeted in the crossfire. Above all, neither of the two police officers appeared “rammed” ni ” dragged “ on “several meters”.
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