Two municipal police officers indicted for violence and complicity of violence. Accused of using tear gas on a scooter after it refused to comply with police.
The driver of the scooter was found in critical condition after hitting a tree and an electricity pole. The scooter driver had been convicted several times, notably for refusing to comply, use and possession of drugs. The young man’s vital prognosis “is still engaged," said Bourges public prosecutor Céline Visiedo in a press release on Thursday. The police admit to having wrongly used the tear gas canister, interpreting a gesture, she said. The two officials were “placed under judicial supervision with in particular the ban on carrying out police and security activity, the ban. on coming into contact with the co-perpetrator and the victims and the. ban on holding a weapon. The scooter accident occurred this Monday evening in Bourges (Cher).