The police officer charged is 24 years old. He is described by his superiors as an “excellent police officer”. On Sunday evening, two people were shot dead by the police at Pont-Neuf, in the heart of Paris. The policeman behind the fatal shootings was in particular indicted on Wednesday, on the count of intentional homicide against the driver of the vehicle. This peacekeeper, aged 24, is from Reunion. In the police for 18 months, he has the authorization to use the HK G36 assault rifle, with which he fired on Sunday evening. Before this evening, the police officer had stood out by saving a woman in the Seine. who had attempted suicide a month ago. “It was a colleague who had taken the plunge to save a life, indicates Grégory Joron, general secretary of the SGP Police FO Unit union, on the set of BFMTV (…) We can today, in view of the missions that my colleagues face in the field, unfortunately be a hero one day and finally be indicted the next day. “He was also going to receive a reward for this rescue, says a member of his hierarchy, who adds that “he was an excellent police officer, a boy who had a magnificent future ahead of him”, while “today, [c’est] a lost boy”. • A dozen bullets fired at the level of the driverAccording to our information, Sunday evening, a car first travels on the Pont-Neuf in both directions. It arrives at the Quai des Orfèvres and, at the entrance , stops and goes into reverse. This situation intrigues the five policemen of the night support group within the City Security Company (CSC). They then separate into two groups. The two policemen, the man under investigation and the group leader, walk along the Seine and come to stand in front of the car. The three other police officers will approach the car from the rear, including a female police officer who takes her flashlight , directs the driver, who is going to start. The policewoman opens the door and tries to stop the vehicle. She is not dragged by the car, but she accompanies it with her lamp. The car starts and rushes on both policemen positioned in front.The policeman opens fire with his assault rifle and goes to fire a diza ine of bullets, concentrated in a plate at the level of the driver, who is about to be killed. There would also be side bullets, but no doubt because the car deviated from its trajectory. . Self-defence was therefore not accepted. For this circumstance to be accepted, the police officers would have had to be in immediate danger of death. However, this point could evolve over the course of the investigation. “This indictment for intentional homicide inevitably shocks us, declares Grégory Joron, general secretary of the SGP Police FO Unit union, on the set of BFMTV. We find the high qualification, necessarily (…) We will have to support him psychologically.” The trade unionist hopes that this indictment will serve to clarify “the conditions of self-defense. I sincerely hope, with all my heart, that self-defense will be recognized”, he concludes. For its part, the Alliance union, classified on the right of the political spectrum, expressed its anger at this decision deemed “inadmissible”. An autopsy will take place, as well as analyzes of the lesional ballistics. In addition, since there were no video surveillance cameras, the judicial police would have to recover private images of the scene.