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The three police officers taken into custody after shooting at a vehicle and killing the passenger on Saturday June 4 went free. However, the Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for intentional violence. Since the virulent tweet of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the political reactions are linked.
Since Sunday June 5, the three police officers were questioned at theIGPNthe font of fonts. They emerged free, after 48 hours of jail. “Their statements are consistent with the elements of the file“, believes Mr. Laurent-Frank Linkardlawyer for the police. The drama took place on Saturday June 4 in the morning, in an artery in the north of Paris. The agents then catch up with a car that refused to stop, and surround it. According to their account, the vehicle drove off again, hitting one of the officials. The police shoot nine times and kill the 21-year-old passenger
Tuesday, June 7, a few days before the first round of the legislative elections, the case takes a political turn since a tweet from Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “The police kill and the rebel group Alliance justifies the shootings and the death for “refusal to comply”. Shame is when?“, he wrote.
Reactions are also strong on the right. “That Mr. Mélenchon makes his business from the permanent criticism of the police is a scandal, and he would like to be Prime Minister“, annoys Xavier Bertrand, president of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France. In a tweet, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin provided support to law enforcement.