Continuation for this news item of this week which took place in Nice-Ouest during which a motorist on the run and having forced a police roadblock with a stuck car was shot by a police officer. The driver is dead. His passenger was taken into custody as well as the policeman. This Friday, the police custody ended and the police officer could be indicted.
Indicted for intentional homicide
In any case, that’s what the Nice prosecutor’s office will ask. An investigation entrusted to the IGPN, the police force, was opened for intentional homicide. The 23-year-old police officer who shot the motorist could then to be indicted for intentional homicide. While in police custody, he explained that he had shot in “because of the immediate risk of harm to his physical integrity and that of his colleague“But an investigating judge must now check everything. The prosecutor’s press release, sent to the media, is very clear on this point, but between the lines we understand that there is doubt about this whole affair. The policeman was in any case placed under judicial control; which means that he is no longer completely free to move.
On the other hand, there is no doubt for the passenger in the car, a 26-year-old man, unknown to the police and in an irregular situation, who was indicted for “aggravated concealment of theft”. He will be remanded in custody.