Refusal to comply in Paris: “Nothing justified the use of firearms”, insists the driver’s lawyer

The man suspected of having refused to comply in Paris on June 4, resulting in the fatal shooting of police on his passenger, will be presented to a judge this Thursday, June 9 for his possible indictment, according to information from franceinfo. The lawyer for the driver’s family spoke this Thursday, June 9 morning at a press conference. He was accompanied by the driver’s sister and Amal Bentounsi, from the “Urgency Police Kill” collective. “My family and I join Rayana’s family in sending our condolences and telling them that we share their pain,” the driver’s sister said at the start of the press conference. “My brother would never have been able to run into the police” “Today my brother is still hospitalized in intensive care, he is in bad shape, but his condition is improving,” she added. “I haven’t been able to talk to him, I haven’t seen him yet, it’s heartbreaking not being able to see his brother knowing everything he’s going through.” “I know my brother would never have been able to run into the police or run over the police… He never used violence,” the sister continues. “It is true that my brother had problems with the justice system, but that does not justify or legitimize the violence that was committed against him and the people in the car this Saturday. I would like to remind you that there was a death”. “The person’s criminal record has nothing to do with what happened,” said Amal Bentounsi, from the “silence notre police assassinate” collective. “Let’s stop criminalizing the victims (…) We are being shown something else when it is they who are responsible.” Master Ibrahim Shalabi, the driver’s lawyer, said that “nothing justified the use of firearms by the police in the context that is known today”. “A refusal to comply is never considered a dangerous situation unless there are special circumstances. Here the special circumstances did not exist. Nothing justifies the use of firearms in this context,” he said. -he declares. According to Maître Laurent-Franck Liénard, the lawyer for the three police officers, “the police do not kill, they shoot when they really cannot do otherwise, and they pray that people do not die” he repeated. “The police who had to use their weapon and cause someone’s death are in complete disarray.” And to conclude: “My clients say that if they had not fired they would have been hit and they would have died today.”