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 police officer allegedly responsible for the shooting, born in 1973, 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”.
Tuesday, around 5:30 a.m. in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), a motorist driving a Clio refused to stop at a police checkpoint and headed 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 tried to get the passengers out of the vehicle with smoked windows, who locked 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 went off accidentally, 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.