Death of a woman during a police check in Paris: the driver indicted

Published on: 06/09/2022 – 22:49 The driver of the vehicle suspected of refusing to comply during a check on Saturday in Paris, during which the police fired on a vehicle and killed one of his passengers, was indicted on Thursday. Still hospitalized, he was placed in pre-trial detention at the place where he is being treated. Still hospitalized but now under pre-trial detention. The driver of the vehicle at which three police officers fired – killing a passenger – for refusing to comply during a road check on Saturday in Paris, was indicted on Thursday June 9. The man is indicted for “attempting intentional homicide of a person holding public authority, repeated offense of aggravated refusal to comply, repeated offense of driving a vehicle despite an order to return his driving license and repeated offense of driving under the influence of an alcoholic state” , we learned from a judicial source. He was “placed in pre-trial detention at the place of his hospitalization.” Seriously injured by a police shot in the chest, the driver was heard by the investigating judge at the hospital where he was admitted after the fact, according to the prosecution. The 38-year-old man was placed in custody on Tuesday for refusing to comply twice during a check of his vehicle in the 18th arrondissement by police officers on mountain bikes. The latter fired nine times, according to the prosecution, injured him and his passenger seated in the front, hit in the head. The 21-year-old woman died the next day. The suspect’s lawyer, Me Ibrahim Shalabi, said at a press conference on Thursday that the occupants of the car were not wanted and that the vehicle was blocked by a bus when the police opened fire. “The car could not move,” he said. “He refused to comply for fear of going to prison (…) for fear that the police would arrest him because he did not have his license”, explained Sonia (the first name has been changed) , the sister of the respondent, at the same press conference.>> To see: Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s comments on the police deemed unworthy by the political class “His judicial past does not legitimize the nine bullets fired”” It’s true that my brother had problems with the law, but that doesn’t justify the violence that was done,” she said. “His judicial past does not legitimize the nine bullets fired.” The police custody of the three police officers who used their weapon was lifted on Tuesday after 48 hours for “continuation of investigations” within the framework of the open judicial investigation. tuesday. They are not indicted at this stage. On Wednesday, the family of Rayana, the passenger killed by police fire, had indicated their intention to file a complaint against the driver and the police. According to Me Sylvie Noachovitch, the family’s lawyer, the young woman, “without a criminal record, did not know the driver”, having met him the same evening in a nightclub. Several associations called for a rally on Saturday in Paris to request the repeal of article L435-1 of the internal security code which regulates the use of firearms by the police. Under this article, the police are authorized to shoot in case refusal to comply if they cannot stop the car other than by the use of arms and if, in his flight, the driver is “likely to perpetrate (…) attacks on their life or their physical integrity or those of others”. This affair revived the question of the use of force by the police and gendarmes and fueled, on the eve of the first round of the legislative elections, a lively controversy between the head of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and his political adversaries.”I cannot accept (…) that we insult those who risk their lives to protect ours”, launched Thursday Emmanuel Macron to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had denounced a “police that kills”. With AFP