Claude d’Harcourt was stationed at the time of the 24-year-old young man, fell into the Loire during the night of the music festival, after a controversial order holding operation.
Le Monde with AFP
Claude d’Harcourt, the prefect of Loire-Atlantique in office at the time of death in 2019 from Steve Maia Caniço in Nantes during a controversial police operation, was indicted, said, Thursday, October 14 evening, the prosecutor of Rennes, Philippe Astruc.
“This day, the prefect of Loire-Atlantique at the time of the facts, was indicted for manslaughter,” said the magistrate in a statement. Coming after those of several other protagonists of the file heard since the summer, the hearing of the Prefect Claude d’Harcourt was expected in October.
“Subject to requests for complementary acts, interrogations or confrontations that would be necessary, the term of the instruction could intervene at the end of the year 2021 or beginning 2022 before the prosecutor’s office is invited to take his requisitions (within three months after the term of the instruction) on a referral or not to the correctional court “, specifies the public prosecutor’s release.
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“The sub-prefect and cabinet director of the prefect of Loire-Atlantique at the time of the facts”, as well as “the police commissioner in charge of the device at the time of the facts” had also been indicted for Homicide in unintentional homicide in July, following the death of this young man of 24, fallen into the Loire, on the occasion of the Festival of Music, “in the time of the intervention of the National Police”, according to the terms of M. Astruc.
The mayor PS of Nantes, Johanna Rolland, and his former deputy security and public tranquility were placed in September under the status of witness attended, as well as, in July, “the DDSP [Departmental Director of the Public security] Assistant at the time of the facts “.
The city and the metropolis of Nantes, which Johanna Rolland is president, were placed in September under the status of witness assisted as legal persons. The witness assisted is a person called into a criminal case. This is an intermediate status between that of the witness and that of the indicted.
Steve Maia Caniço, an extracurricular animator, had disappeared after a police operation intended to stop an electro party on the edge of the Loire on the night of 21 to 22 June 2019. His body had been found, in the river, more than A month later, July 29th.