A 19-year-old man died after a police officer was shot in Cherbourg

The policewoman shot the young man as he fled to avoid a police check. She was taken into custody.

A police officer is in police custody for intentional homicide after shooting a young man on Sunday June 9 in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Manche), France Bleu Cotentin reported on Monday. The 19-year-old man was trying to flee a police check for speeding on Sunday evening around 11:40 p.m. A crew of three police officers “attempted to control a vehicle traveling at excessive speed”indicates the Cherbourg public prosecutor’s office in a press release. “The driver of the vehicle did not comply with the summons”he continued on his way.

A second police crew then intervenes, details France Bleu Cotentin and “forces the vehicle to stop”. The three occupants fled on foot: one was arrested and then placed in police custody for receiving stolen goods because the vehicle “theft”another managed to flee and was not found Monday evening, the third – the 19-year-old young man – fled in the opposite direction.

He pushes “one of them deliberately fled”in the words of the prosecution. “The official then used an electric pulse gun”, details the public prosecutor of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. At that moment, another policewoman “uses his firearm” and touch “fatally in the chest” the young man on the run.

Civil servant “at the origin of the fatal shooting was placed in police custody on the charge of intentional homicide”, reports France Bleu Cotentin. The IGPN, the General Inspectorate of the National Police, was responsible for the investigation. Investigations are underway to determine the precise course of events.

The prefect of La Manche, Xavier Brunetière, and the mayor of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Benoît Arrivé, “come together to express their emotion and call for calm, dignity and respect for the family’s mourning”they indicate in a joint press release.