It is not known whether the victim participated in violence, affirms the prosecution, which explains that it is “probable” that a “flash-ball type” projectile caused his death.
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The Marseille prosecutor’s office has opened a judicial investigation for “fatal blows with the use or threat of a weapon” after the death of a 27-year-old man on the night of Saturday July 1 to Sunday July 2, he announced on Tuesday. to France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, confirming information from There Marseillaise. The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) was seized, learned franceinfo from a source close to the investigation.
The prosecution judges “probable death caused by a violent shock to the thorax caused by the firing of a flash-ball type projectile”, resulting in the victim’s cardiac arrest. This one was discovered cours Lieutaud, in the center of Marseille, and transferred to the hospital, where she died.
This death occurred as violence took place in Marseille in the wake of Nahel’s death, and large numbers of law enforcement personnel were deployed in the city, supported by the Raid and the GIGN. But the link between this context and the death of this man remains unclear: the prosecution specifies that it is not able “to determine if the victim had participated or even if he had been able to circulate” in an area where violence was taking place. She was on a scooter, specifies a source close to the investigation at franceinfo.