the police officer indicted and detained will appeal, announces his lawyer

The policeman suspected of having killed the young Nahel on Tuesday morning in Nanterre, indicted and remanded in custody, will appeal “from this friday morning“, announces Thursday, June 29 on franceinfo his lawyer Laurent-Franck Liénard.

“For someone who has spent his life trying to enforce the law and protect citizens, ending up in jail is Kafkaesque and schizophrenic.“, estimated the lawyer, who adds that “the death of this young man is a tragedy“. According to him, “you have to get out of the picture and you have to ask yourself if the shot is legitimate or not. It’s not true to say he’s not in self-defense“.

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“The prosecution considers that the legal conditions for the use of the weapon are not met“, underlined in the morning the public prosecutor of Nanterre, Pascal Prache during a press conference. “The prosecutor does not say which conditions are not met“, denounces however Laurent-Franck Liénard.

“His colleague was inside the cabin so he risked being dragged away by the car“, assures the lawyer, while indicating that “the vehicle, a few seconds before, failed to crush a pedestrian or cyclists”.We had to stop this vehicle and the only way was to shoot the driver“.”The court decision was made before we even arrived“, also denounced the lawyer, denouncing “media, political and street pressure“.