a 17-year-old minor killed by police fire after refusing to comply

The Nanterre public prosecutor’s office opened two investigations, one for refusal to comply and attempted intentional homicide against a person holding public authority and another for intentional homicide by a person holding public authority.

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A 17-year-old minor was killed on the morning of Tuesday June 27 in Nanterre after refusing to comply, franceinfo learned from the Nanterre prosecutor’s office. According to the first elements of the investigation entrusted by the Nanterre prosecutor’s office and a source close to the investigation, three people were in a car shortly after 8 a.m.

According to the account of the police officers of which franceinfo has knowledge of a source close to the file, the agents tried to arrest the driver who refused to comply and then ran into a police officer who fired his weapon, after which the vehicle crashed into a pole.

One of the three people on board, aged 17, was shot and pronounced dead at 9:15 a.m. “following at least one gunshot wound”, specifies the parquet floor of Nanterre. This person is known to the justice services, specifies the prosecution which adds that another passenger, also a minor, has been placed in police custody and the third passenger is on the run.

The Nanterre public prosecutor’s office opened two flagrant investigations, one for refusal to comply and attempted intentional homicide of a person holding public authority, entrusted to the Nanterre police station and the Hauts-de-Seine territorial security . The other investigation is open for intentional homicide by a person holding public authority entrusted to the IGPN.


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