The policeman who fired the fatal shots on Sunday evening on the Pont-Neuf in Paris was indicted this Wednesday forvoluntary homicide” with regard to the driver of the vehicle.
The 24-year-old peacekeeper was placed under judicial supervision. He has the’“ban on leaving the territory except in exceptional cases, ban on appearing in Paris, ban on contact with the police department to which he belongs for six months, ban on exercising any police function involving contact with the public, ban on wearing weapon, obligation of care and prohibition of contact with the victims.
An investigation entrusted to the IGPN
The policeman had been taken into custody on Monday before being presented to two investigating judges this Wednesday afternoon. On the night of Sunday to Monday, around midnight, he had fired at a car in the wrong direction which had run into one of his colleagues, fatally hitting the driver and his passenger, and injuring a third man in the back.
Investigation, entrusted to the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police), was opened. She will have to determine whether the police officer acted in self-defense.
An unacceptable decision
Following this review, the police union Alliance evoked “an unacceptable decision“. In a leaflet denouncing this indictment, the union specifies that it “ne can accept that our colleague is the victim of the judicial system which continues to remain a shadow of itself“.
For Alliance, this decision to indict the policeman comes “challenge our institution and our police officers“.