A new video calls into question official version after a police intervention in Stains in August

The new images, which “Le Monde” was able to view, throw a new light on the conditions of the shots of two members of the bac on a couple in this city of Seine-Saint-Denis, the night of the 15th. August 16.

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What happened at night from August 15 to 16 in Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis)? Around 1:30, Maxime-Gorki Boulevard, a crew of the anti-crime brigade (BAC) opens the fire several times on a couple of motorists in unclear circumstances. The driver, “unfavorably known to police services”, is seriously injured by several impacts in the arm, thorax and pubis; His companion, pregnant, is also affected by several impacts and loses his child. A few hours later, a video focusing is posted by the suburban echo, “neighborhood independent media”. It does not look long to become viral and arouses, in reaction, an official speaking of the Paris Police Prefecture.

At 12:19, on August 16, the Twitter account of the prefecture puts online His own “decryption” video , which will be retweeted 783 times. FACE CAMERA, a police commissioner devises a precise, detailed argument. After recalling the circumstances of the police intervention, “following a refusal to obey”, it explains that the officials of the Bac 93 “came to control the driver of a vehicle which, after cutting the contact, a Delivered the contact and suddenly reverse, thus punching the police officer who was in protection “. After that, still details the commissioner, “the second police officer, who was in contact with the driver of the vehicle, attempted to immobilize the vehicle and was driven over several meters by the driver of the vehicle that made a walk before”. From then on, “the two policemen made use of their administrative weapon”.

Five shots, then three

A new video of fifty-nine seconds, turned by a motorist witness from the stage and that Le Monde was able to view, however, shows a follow-up of the facts in contradiction with this version. On the images, turned with a mobile phone while the anonymous videographer car approaches the scene, we first distinguish two cars rows on the bottom-side: the, trivialized, police, slightly positioned by bias to bar. The transition to the second, a Citroën C2. A man with a massive basis, dressed in a black set and wearing a cap of the same color, stands near the left front door of Citroën, while another individual, in white t-shirt, is Perched on the vehicle hood.

While the ribbed car of the police, led by a third official, operates a walk before to clear the road, the man to the white t-shirt tries to break into the cabin of the Citroën, which immediately engages. A reverse step. Sitting on the rim of the driver’s side, the legs slid inside the Citroën, he tries to seize what seems to be a bag or a piece of bright color pulling him.

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