Refusal to comply in Paris: the three police officers were released without prosecution – archyde

The passenger in the vehicle they had checked died on Sunday from gunshot wounds. After two days in police custody, the three police officers who fired Saturday in Paris on a car suspected of having run into them, during a check, were released on Tuesday. At this stage, no charge is against them, announces their lawyer. Laurent-Franck Lienard. “They have nothing to hide and will demonstrate their respect for the rules and the legitimacy of their action,” he added. All three were taken into custody on Sunday. “This measure is taken because of the seriousness of the consequences of the shots carried out and in order to verify the conditions of use of their weapons by the persons concerned”, the prosecution then explained to AFP. Monday evening, their lawyer, to justify the shootings, assured on BFMTV that the agents “all three felt the dangerousness of the maneuver of the car and the urgency to react”. half after the indictment for “voluntary homicide” of a police officer, suspected of having killed on the night of April 24 to 25 with an automatic weapon the driver and the front passenger of a car which would have forced a control on the Pont-Neuf in Paris. According to a police source, the facts would have started rue Ordener shortly before 11 am Saturday morning. A crew notices four people in a car. One of the passengers is not wearing his seatbelt, the police on bicycles decide to check the passengers. But the driver restarts and leaves at high speed. Nine cartridges would have been fired. The vehicle then finds itself stuck in traffic at the level of Barbès and is caught up by the crew of police officers on bicycles. There, the driver would have pretended to cut off the ignition before restarting abruptly and overthrowing an official. Three of the latter then drew their service weapons and fired. Nine cartridges would have been fired. The car would then have gone up rue Custine in the opposite direction, before stopping at number 17, certainly blocked by a white van which was arriving opposite from rue Clignancourt. Still according to a police source and various witnesses, the front passenger was injured in the head and the driver in the chest. He allegedly tried to flee on foot before being arrested. According to our information, the driver was registered in the file of persons wanted for a sentence to be executed. His driver’s license had also been revoked. The vital prognosis of the driver, aged 38 and hit in the chest, was no longer engaged on Sunday evening.