Three days after the police check during which a driver was seriously injured and a passenger killed by police fire on Saturday in Paris, the officials are still in custody in the premises of the “police of the police”, where they plead the self-defense. A rear passenger in the car gave a different version of events. A drama that turned into the political quarrel between Jean-Luc Mélenchon – who denounces “a police that kills” -, his opponents and the police unions, one week before the first round of the legislative elections.
What happened ?
The facts took place late Saturday morning in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, in the Château-Rouge district, when officials on mountain bikes wanted to control “a car with four passengers, one of whom was not wearing his seat belt” , said a police source. As they approached, the car fled. A little further on, while the police were again trying to control him, the driver drove off and, still according to the police version, allegedly “ran into” the officials who used their weapons and hit the driver and the car. front passenger. The latter, in her twenties and shot in the head, died on Sunday. The driver was seriously injured in the chest. The two rear passengers were not hit.
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What are the police saying?
The police custody started on Sunday in the premises of the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) of the two men and the woman who shot at the vehicle was extended on Monday. These police officers are heard for “violence having caused a total interruption of work of more than 8 days with a weapon by a person holding public authority” and “violence having caused death without intention to give it by a person holding public authority “. Police custody was decided “because of the seriousness of the consequences of the shootings carried out and in order to verify the conditions of use of their weapons by the persons concerned”, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
“They fired to protect themselves,” assured the police lawyer, Me Laurent-Franck Liénard, on BFM TV, for whom “their lives were truly in danger, they had to use their weapon”. “If we hadn’t fired, there would have been serious injuries or even deaths in our ranks,” the officials reportedly said. “The whole scene was filmed”, assured the lawyer again.
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