The public prosecutor’s office is opening this information under the heading of “violence leading to death without the intention of giving it by a person holding public authority”, the prosecutor said in a press release on Friday.
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The Bobigny public prosecutor’s office announced, Friday June 21, the opening of a judicial investigation after the death of a man killed by a municipal police officer, Wednesday in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis). The latter was released after his police custody.
The public prosecutor’s office is opening this information under the heading of “violence leading to death without the intention of giving it by a person holding public authority”, the prosecutor specified in a press release.
Aged 47, the victim, who lived in the street, was fatally shot by the municipal police officer. According to the account of prosecutor Eric Mathais, the police were called on Wednesday at 8:20 a.m. for a man who had struck a cleaning agent at Plaine Commune Habitat five times with a screwdriver.
While responding to the scene, one of the national police officers was attacked by the man, who “tried to punch him through the window” of the vehicle and “managed to injure him in the arm”. Also present on site, “a municipal police officer from the commune of Aubervilliers was patrolling with two colleagues. In circumstances which remain to be determined, the municipal police officer fired in the direction of the perpetrator, hitting him in the chest., wrote the prosecutor in a previous press release released on Wednesday. The death was noted at 9:10 a.m. The cleaner and the national police officer left the hospital.
