Grégoire Chassaing will become head of the Lyon national police district in June. A few days before being tried in Rennes for “involuntary homicide” in the case of the death of Steve Maia Caniço.

The 24-year-old after-school entertainer disappeared after a police operation intended to put an end to an electro evening in Nantes, on the banks of the Loire, during the music festival, in 2019.