Claude d’Harcourt was indicted for the man involuntary homicide of the young man, death drowned 2019 after a police intervention in Nantes.
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A very long interrogation and a new thunderclap. Thursday, October 14, David Bénichou, investigating judge in charge of establishing any mistakes who resulted in the death of Steve Maia Caniço during the night of the 2019 music festival in Nantes, indicted for unintentional homicide Claude D ‘Harcourt, the prefect of the region of the Loire and the Loire-Atlantique at the time of the facts.
Contacted by Le Monde, M. d’Harcourt, now Director General of Aliens in France at the Ministry of the Interior – High at the Legion of Honor Officer Grade at the last 14 July promotion – , refused at the slightest comment.
m. Harcourt is the third person to be indicted as part of Mr. Bénichou’s judicial information. Convened at the beginning of the summer, Gregory Chassaing, Commissioner who led the dispersal operation of the techno party, orchestrated on a land belonging to the large maritime port of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, public institution of the state, is also found. Under the threat of the same criminal proceedings, just like Johann Mougenot, the former cabinet director of the prefect.
“A lack of discernment” in the response
Johanna Rolland, Socialist Mayor of Nantes, was placed under the status of witness attended, as well as Gilles Nicolas, Deputy Security Assistant in 2019, and Thierry Palermo, then Departmental Director of Acting Public Safety. Assisted witness status refers to a person implemented during an instruction, but to whom he is not directly reproached the commission of an offense. The city of Nantes and Nantes Métropole are also placed under this regime as legal persons.
In the course of the hearings, the progress of the facts is accurate. The Drama Night, Nine Sound Systems (Sound Systems) were positioned on the Wilson Quay when policemen came to meanwhoes that he was the time to cut the sound. The climate joined in a flash. “To emerge, protect yourself and reconquer the land, the police used thirty-three tear grenades, ten grenades of deundation and twelve defense ball launcher”, according to the count established by the general inspection of The administration (IGA), which pointed out “a lack of discernment in the conduct of the intervention”. The response generated a huge cloud of techymogen and a panic movement.
Technical expertise was diligently on October 6, 2021 on the Wilson Quay website. These analyzes made it possible to locate the precise moment when Muia Caniço rocked into the Loire, on Saturday, June 22, 2019, at 4:33 pm, “in the time of the intervention of the National Police following his taking Violent initial part by a group of people after the request to stop of music “, according to Philippe Astruc, Prosecutor of the Republic of Rennes. The precise geolocation of the victim, during his fall in the river, could not be technically established. But “the testimonies collected allows it to situate it in the area without barring concerned by four other concomitant falls to the police intervention,” exposes Mr. Astruc.
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