"It's shocking to hear that a police officer shot a young person," testifies a local resident.
The police intervened this Sunday in a building, rue Boinod in Paris, in a family dispute, when a man, described as "unbalanced" by the police, repeatedly threatened a police officer, who remained in the area. street.
“He tried to punch the policeman who pulled out his telescopic baton.
He wanted to use a baton to disarm him, but it left his hands, describes a shocked resident who witnessed the scene.
He took out his pistol and said "get down on the ground".
He (the man) did not listen to him, he tried to punch him a second time and the policeman fired three bullets in his chest.
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“It's weird, we don't see this every day at home, we don't have it in our neighborhood.
There are small fights.
But no, slips another inhabitant.
An IGPN investigation was opened to determine the circumstances of the facts and the conditions of self-defense.
The police officer should, as required by the procedure, be taken into custody.