Paris: Death of a woman injured by ball during a check, three police officers in police custody

She was in a car whose occupants are suspected of having wanted to escape a police check. The three civil servants were placed in police custody for “violence with weapon by person custody of the public authority”.

Le Monde with AFP

A woman seriously injured in the head on Saturday by police fire in Paris died on Sunday June 5, according to the France-Presse agency. It was on board a car whose occupants are suspected of having sought to escape the control of the police in the 18 e arrondissement of the capital.

The three police officers who shot, also seriously injuring the driver, were placed in police custody at the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) on Sunday afternoon. The state of human health, injured in the chest, improved.

The three civil servants were placed in police custody for “violence with a weapon by person depository of the public authority”, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. “This measure is taken due to the severity of the consequences of the shots made and in order to verify the conditions of use of their weapons by the interested parties”, according to the same source.

two open surveys

Two surveys were opened. The first, targeting the police, was entrusted to the IGPN. The second was entrusted to the Parisian judicial police and aims at the occupants of the car for attempted homicide on persons depositaries of public authority.

The facts took place at the end of the morning on Saturday. According to a police source, mountain bike police first noticed “a car with four passengers, one of which was not wearing its seat belt”. As they approached it, the car would have “fled at very high speed”.

A little further, while the police tried again to control it, the driver would have started again and “fonc [é] on the crew of mountain bike police”, according to the police story. The civil servants would then have made “use of their weapons” on several occasions and seriously injured “the driver and the passenger” seated at the front of the vehicle.

The two rear passengers, a man and a woman, were not injured and started to be heard on Saturday. “Some of the occupants are known to the services. They say they have consumed alcohol and cannabis,” reported a source close to the file.

/Media reports.