Rennes: a woman killed after refusing to comply during an anti-drug operation – Le Figaro

The driver of the car was trying to evade a check. He was injured, as was a policeman, but his passenger did not survive. Two investigations were opened, one by the IGPN and the other by the judicial police. A 22-year-old woman was killed and a 26-year-old man injured by a police officer while they were trying to escape a control carried out as part of an anti-drug operation in Rennes on the night of Tuesday September 6 to Wednesday September 7, we learned on Wednesday from a police source. A policeman was also injured and hospitalized. Around one o’clock in the morning, police officers from the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) wanted to intercept a vehicle, near the Porte de Lorient at the exit of Rennes, indicates a source policewoman at Le Figaro. The driver refused to comply and stop, advancing towards the police and hitting two BRI vehicles. A policeman then used his weapon, firing once. access to the road from Lorient to Rennes (coming from the outer ring road) during a judicial police operation conducted by the DZPJ of Rennes as part of an investigation into an infringement of the legislation on narcotics carried out for several months under the authority of the Rennes public prosecutor’s office”. During this interception, “a policeman from the Nantes BRI (a unit which had supported the PJ in carrying out this interception by means of a large device) made use of a resumption of his service weapon and slightly injured the driver before the projectile reached, according to the first observations, the passenger, companion of the driver, who is a young woman aged 22, unknown to the judicial services, residing in the region of and Rouen. Despite the intervention of the emergency services, she was to die quickly on the spot at 2:15 a.m. ”, continues the press release. A person in custody The driver, born in 1996, is “very unfavorably known” for drug trafficking, according to a police source at Figaro, and was shot in the arm. He was arrested and taken into custody. The prosecution informs that “the police officer who used his service weapon indicated during his first hearing as a witness that he had been hit by the Peugeot vehicle in the leg when he was trying to protect himself by extracting himself from his face. to the vehicle rushing towards him. Forensic findings of his injuries were made last night by a medical examiner before he left the hospital. Four BRI vehicles were present during the incident. To read also Drugs: from a simple fine to the fight against gangs, the police on all fronts In addition to the investigation into drug trafficking, two investigations were opened: l The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) was seized, as is the case when the police use their weapon. And an investigation for attempted homicide on a person holding public authority has been entrusted to the judicial police. SEE ALSO – Self-defense: in what cases can the police use their weapons?