Refusal to comply in Vénissieux: the driver of the vehicle died – CNEWS

A policeman was hit overnight from Thursday to Friday in Vénissieux (Rhône) by a driver refusing to submit to a check. The police then neutralized the two people in the vehicle. The driver died of his injuries late Friday evening. Another refusal to comply. During the night of Thursday to Friday, police opened fire on the two occupants of a car they wanted to control in Vénissieux, not far from Lyon. The driver of the vehicle, injured during the arrest, finally died Friday evening. In total, the two occupants of the vehicle were killed. In addition, the police custody of two police officers has been lifted, the Lyon prosecutor’s office announced on Friday evening. Investigations still in progress “As part of the investigation entrusted to the IGPN and opened into the heads of voluntary violence by persons holding public authority which resulted in death without intention to give it, the police custody of the two civil servants police was lifted by the Lyon prosecutor’s office at the end of the afternoon at the end of their hearings, ”said the prosecution in a press release. While the first elements “seem to corroborate the hypothesis of self-defense”, additional investigations will however “confirm the exact circumstances in which the police used their weapons”, continued the prosecution, announcing that it had decided to open a judicial inquiry on the same counts. Aged 26 and from the Annecy region, the driver of the vehicle had been hospitalized and his vital prognosis was very serious.