The 26-year-old motorist targeted by police fire overnight from Thursday to Friday in Vénissieux in the Lyon area, is “died as a result of his injuries, late yesterday evening, at the Lyon Sud Hospital”, announces the parquet floor of Lyon, this Saturday, in a press release. He refused to submit to a police check and charged them with his car. His 20-year-old passenger died the night of the shooting. Two investigations are open.
The driver, aged 26 and from the Annecy region, was hospitalized and his vital prognosis was “very committed” Friday, according to the Lyon prosecutor’s office. The driver’s criminal record showed nine convictions. This young man was wanted at the time “in the context of an open investigation for aggravated theft of vehicles”. The deceased passenger was 20 years old and originally from Lyon. “He was known to the police, but his criminal record does not mention any conviction”details the parquet.
The Lyon public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for “Concealment of theft, aggravated refusal to comply and violence with a weapon against law enforcement officers entrusted to the DDSP”.
The police targeted by an investigation by the IGPN
The two police officers heard by the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police) were released this Friday evening, according to the prosecution. The first elements “seem to support the self-defense hypothesis”, he explains. However, “additional investigations – in particular a reconstitution and ballistic expertise – will have to be carried out to confirm the exact circumstances in which the police used their weapons”.
The Lyon public prosecutor’s office has opened a judicial investigation for “violence with a weapon by persons holding public authority resulting in death without the intention of giving it”. The opening of this judicial investigation will “to allow the families of the deceased and the seriously injured person to access the procedure and in order to ensure the conduct of the investigations in a contradictory manner”says the prosecution.