Claude d’Harcourt remains implicated, under the status of assisted witness. The 24 -year -old was drowned in 2019 in Nantes, after a police load.
Le Monde with AFP
The Rennes prosecutor’s office announced, Friday, October 28, that the Breton city court of appeal had canceled the induction in show for the former prefect of Loire-Atlantique, Claude d’Harcourt, after the Died in 2019 by Steve Maia Caniço, in Nantes, during the Music Festival.
The former civil servant had been indicted for a year, just like the former sub-prefect Johann Mougenot and the police commissioner Grégoire Chassaing, in the investigation into the death of Steve Maia Caniço, drowned in the Loire to The rest of a controversial police operation on a quay in Nantes.
On July 5, before the investigation chamber, their lawyers had requested a cancellation of the indictment, for the first two; And a dismissal, for the third. The councils had challenged the independence and impartiality of the Index expertise agency, which carried out a video reconstruction of the police intervention paid to the investigation file. In its judgment rendered on Friday, the investigating chamber of the Rennes Court of Appeal “pronounced the nullity of the expertise” of the index agency.
Only Claude d’Harcourt was won. He was granted the status of assisted witness, said the prosecution in a press release. The indictments of Johann Mougenot and Grégoire Chassaing, also for manslaughter, are confirmed.
fall during the police intervention
The instructor magistrate had notified the end of the judicial information on March 7 in this case. The Rennes prosecutor’s office, which must take its requisitions three months after this notification, declared in June to the France-Presse agency that it was waiting for the investigating chamber to be pronounced on the appeals of the underlying.
Steve Maia Caniço, 24 -year -old extracurricular host, had disappeared after a police operation intended to stop an electro evening by the Loire on the night of June 21 to 22, 2019. Analysis of the phone’s phone reads made it possible to locate his fall in the Loire at 4 h 33, that is during the police intervention.
saying that he had felt threatened and being victims of projectile jets, the police had retaliated by pulling thirty-three tear gas grenades, twelve defense balls and ten grenades of unclogging. Witnesses had told that they were blinded by a cloud of tear gas. Seven other people had fallen into the Loire during the police intervention. The body of Steve Maia Caniço was not found until July 29, about two kilometers upstream.