The floor opened dthem surveys. The first on the facts of “attempted murder of a person holding public authority”, entrusted to the Grenoble judicial police service, and the second on the facts of fatal blows, entrusted to the IGPN.
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A 24-year-old man was killed Thursday, July 7 at the end of the afternoon by the police, in the city center of Grenoble (Isère), announced the parquet floor of the city. He was riding a scooter with an armed passenger. According to the prosecutor, the occupants of the scooter crossed paths with two police officers who were on foot patrol around 6:15 p.m. The young man is dead “on the spot despite the care provided quickly by the emergency services”. The other occupant of the scooter arrived “to flee”.
The two men were known to the police in cases of narcotics and aggravated violence, according to a source close to the investigation at France Télévisions. They were “bearers of bulletproof vests and three Kalashnikov magazines of 30 cartridges each”says this source.
According to the first elements of the investigation communicated by the prosecution, “one of the occupants of the scooter allegedly aimed at the police officers with a long weapon. One (of the two officers) then pulled out his service weapon and fired in the direction of the occupants of the scooter.”
“The policeman who used his weapon was taken into custody and should be heard in the evening by IGPN investigators”added the prosecutor, Boris Duffau, adding that an autopsy would be carried out on Friday morning.
A “loaded Kalashnikov weapon was found at the scene”, in the Hoche district sector, detailed the magistrate, who specifies that two investigations have been opened. The first on the facts of “attempted murder of a person holding public authority”, entrusted to the Grenoble judicial police service, and the second on the facts of fatal blows, entrusted to the IGPN.