An investigation entrusted to the IGPN was opened for violence with a weapon by a person holding public authority.
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A police officer shot and wounded, on Tuesday May 3 in the morning in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), a young man in a car after refusing to comply, announced the Nanterre prosecution, confirming information from the log Point. An investigation was opened for aggravated refusal to comply. The four passengers were taken into custody. The policeman born in 1973, alleged perpetrator of the shooting, was also placed in police custody as part of an investigation entrusted to the IGPN for violence with a weapon by a person holding public authority.
Around 5:30 a.m. in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), Tuesday, May 3, a motorist driving a Clio refuses to stop at a police checkpoint and heads for Hauts-de-Seine. The car was finally stopped in Courbevoie by a stick, a tool for puncturing tires, said the prosecution.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the police are trying to get the passengers out of the vehicle with smoked windows, which lock themselves in the passenger compartment. Unable to do so, one of the police officers broke a window with the butt of his service weapon and a shot was accidentally fired, according to his first statements. One of the young passengers was injured in the leg and taken to hospital, the public prosecutor said, without being able to specify his state of health.