Refusal to comply in Paris: the driver of the vehicle placed in police custody for attempted homicide – CNEWS

The driver suspected of having refused a police check on Saturday in Paris was placed in police custody as part of an open investigation, in particular for attempted homicide on a person holding public authority, we learned this Tuesday. Police custody was also lifted for further investigations. The case of the driver suspected of having refused a police check on Saturday in Paris is progressing. After detecting more than one gram of alcohol in his blood when the police wanted to arrest him, the driver of the vehicle was taken into custody as part of an open investigation for attempted homicide on a person holding the public authority, according to our information. At the time of the events, the driver was benefiting from a sentence adjustment in semi-freedom, according to information obtained by CNEWS. Judicial information was also opened today against the police, in particular for intentional violence by a person holding public authority which resulted in death without the intention of giving it. The IGPN launches a call for witnesses Concerning the investigation into the use of the weapon by the police, and at the request of the Paris prosecutor’s office, a call for witnesses was launched today by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN). Earlier in the morning, the three officers were released after being taken into custody on Sunday following the death of the passenger in the vehicle. The facts took place on Saturday June 4. A team of police officers on mountain bikes had seen a car with a passenger in the rear seats who was not wearing his seat belt. Despite a police check, the driver did not want to comply, fleeing with the three people who were in the vehicle. The vehicle, still on the run, had been blocked by traffic at 49 boulevard Barbès, in the 18th arrondissement. While he was stuck behind a bus, the police had decided to come up to him, but the fugitive had restarted. It was at this precise moment that the police decided to open fire on the vehicle. The driver, injured, had managed to flee with the car and the young woman, who was at his side, was seriously injured. She died on Sunday evening. Unable to drive, the suspect had hit a van and his mad dash had stopped at the corner of rue Clignancourt and rue Custine where he got out of the car before collapsing. According to AFP, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed, Monday, June 6, the opening of an investigation by the head of attempted voluntary homicide on a person holding public authority, entrusted to the 2nd DPJ. The prosecution also confirmed the opening of an investigation “on the head of intentional violence with a weapon by persons holding public authority”, entrusted to the IGPN.