the police officer changes version

It is actually "by accident", and not in self-defense, that he fired on young Aboubakar F. Tuesday night. In front of the investigators of the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the CRS contradicted, Friday, its first version. In custody for "willful violence by a person in charge of the public authority that led to death without intent to give it", he was referred in the afternoon. "He admitted to having made a statement that was not true" during his first hearing, said his lawyer Laurent-Franck Lienard. According to a source familiar with the matter, the police officer's five colleagues, who were heard the night before, said that the driver had made a "very fast" reverse, to the point of risking overturning two of the four children playing on the line. pavement behind the car. According to them, one of the officers just had time to push one of the children, to take the other in his arms and to take shelter in front of the CRS van. A version contradicted by local residents questioned by AFP, and not confirmed by the prosecutor of the Republic of Nantes, Pierre Sennès, Wednesday, at its press conference. According to a woman who filmed the scene, there was "no policeman behind the car, he did not crush anyone."

The death of this young man of 22, under the influence of an arrest warrant for "organized robbery, concealment and criminal conspiracy" immediately provoked an outburst of anger. On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday and the following nights, urban violence followed one another in several "sensitive" neighborhoods of Nantes. On the night of Thursday to Friday, it is the professional high school Léonard-de-Vinci and a service station which were the subject of a fire attempt. "Eight buildings in total – administrative and commercial – have been degraded, says one police source. Four people were taken into custody, including a 14-year-old miner with a can of gasoline and wicks. "

As on the previous day, a molotov badtail was thrown at a police van in the court of a commissariat of the suburbs of Nantes. In addition, 52 vehicles were burned, mainly at La Bottière, in the north-east of Nantes, in Bellevue and in the northern neighborhoods. The personal car of the mayor (PS) Johanna Rolland was also burned; an "untargeted" act, according to the same source. Friday, the prefect of Loire-Atlantique has taken two orders to prohibit, until July 13, the purchase and retail sale, removal or transportation of any fuel and the sale or sale of fireworks

Incidents also broke out in Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d'Oise), where the victim was from, for the second consecutive night. "In an extremely tense climate, a police source said, a police vehicle was targeted and garbage cans were burned, without any injuries." No incidents were reported in the Breil district police control that had degenerated Tuesday, and where the relatives of Aboubakar F. had called for calm.

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