A police officer was injured and used his weapon, killing the passenger of a suspicious car.
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An anti-drug operation went wrong in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, on the night of Tuesday September 6 to Wednesday September 7. The passenger of a vehicle suspected of transporting drugs was killed by police fire, after an attempted interception by the judicial police, learned franceinfo from a police source.
The facts occurred in the middle of the night, around one o’clock in the morning. Four teams from the BRI, the Research and Intervention Brigade, positioned themselves to stop this vehicle which was in the middle of its journey, but the driver refused to comply. He did not stop and hit three of the four law enforcement vehicles, injuring one of the officials, according to the first elements of the investigation.
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The injured officer then fired towards the car, injuring the 26-year-old driver, already known to the police, in the arm and killing the 22-year-old passenger. Cocaine was also found in the car, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Two investigations are opened: one for the refusal to comply and the other for the shooting of the policeman. The latter is entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) as required by the procedure each time a police officer uses his service weapon.