the officer responsible for the shot indicted

The CRS Bergerac company that fired Tuesday night in the Breil district in Nantes, causing the death of a 22-year-old man, Aboubakar F., was indicted on the evening of Friday, 6 July, for "" intentional badault causing death without intent to give her, with this aggravating circumstance that the facts were committed by a person in charge of the public authority with the use of a weapon ".

After being presented to the two investigating judges seized of this sensitive file, the police officer was placed under judicial control, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution. It is forbidden him to carry a weapon and to appear in Nantes. He was first heard under the regime of free hearing, Wednesday morning, the day after the tragedy, before being placed in custody Thursday noon. He has since delivered to the investigators a new account of the facts.

A "hand-to-hand"

"He admitted to having made a statement that did not conform to the truth " said Friday his lawyer, Laurent-Franck Lienard. After baduring, in a first version, that he had fired, in a context of "self-defense" to protect a child and another CRS, the officer now declares that shooting, " accidentel ", would have left, after a " hand-to-hand " with Aboubakar F., in the badpit of the car, of the Nissan brand. According to his statements, the CRS then sought to "seize the steering wheel to stop the maneuver of the driver, who was reversing," said Friday Pierre Sennès, prosecutor of the Republic of Nantes, during 'a press conference. A story that several neighborhood witnesses consider Friday night as "absolutely false". "It's still a lie! Never, there was any hand-to-hand, " says a particular inhabitant of the city.

The evening of the facts, Aboubakar F., sought under a warrant for arrest issued in June 2017 in Créteil for "organized gang robbery, concealment and criminal conspiracy" had been controlled by six CRSs. The officials had noticed that he was not wearing his seat belt. The driver had introduced himself to them under a false identity and the police had decided to take him to the central police station for "verifications."

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The young man then abruptly backtracked and "grazed a police officer remained standing near the van" according to the public prosecutor. "The police officer had with him two children" who would have been dismissed "at the last moment" according to Pierre Sennès. The Nissan then collides with a parked car and stops. "After this shock, Aboubakar F. will operate a new reverse in a step of escape. It is at this point that an official, who has followed the progress of the car, will find himself at the level of the driver and use his weapon, reaching the driver at the throat " continues Pierre seines. The Nissan then violently ends its race against the wall of a house, a little lower. The young man succumbs to his wounds in the minutes that follow.

Very shortly after the tragedy, residents of the neighborhood had contradicted the first version delivered by the CRS and denounced "a burr" before to engage in a work of collecting testimonials to deny the police story. This Friday night, after being "relieved" to learn that the official had admitted to "lied" they said "disgusted" to learn that he had been "set free" .

A new night of tension

Many investigations remain to be carried out, under rogatory commission, to enlighten the precise circumstances in which the tragedy occurred and to verify the veracity of the comments made by the suspect. Thus, the public prosecutor revealed that a new autopsy would be performed "to determine the firing distance and its trajectory" . The first jurists who had examined the body of the deceased had, in fact, estimated that the shot had been fired "slightly from the top to the bottom" . The possible presence of powder residues will also be studied. The investigators will also seek to collect new testimonies and video recordings. "An important work of investigation will continue insisted Pierre Sennès. And the family will now be able to become civil party and have access to the entire file.

After three nights of violence in several neighborhoods in Nantes, the prosecutor also called for calm on Friday night. "We must now let justice work. It is necessary that the troubles which agitate the city cease. To respect the legitimate expectations of the family of Aboubakar F. and know the precise circumstances surrounding the death of his son.

But new incidents erupted in Nantes for the fourth night in a row. Around 1am on Saturday, seven vehicles were burned in Orvault, Rezé and the neighborhoods of Nantes Breil and Bellevue. The police also wiped Molotov badtails at Breil and Bellevue and responded with tear gas grenades. The beginning of the fire hit a building of the Nantes Habitat social landlord in the Breil district.

Three men aged 20 to 31 years were also sentenced Friday to four months in prison suspended for violence committed Wednesday evening against the police, in Nantes. This conviction was accompanied by a citizenship internship. One of them was also banned from the territory of Nantes for a period of two years.