“We cannot hear that our colleague is called a murderer.
It is not possible, it would mean that it is a voluntary act to want to kill a man in the exercise of his functions.
This is not the debate”, reacted strongly Frédéric Lagache, general delegate of the Alliance national police union, the day after the indictment of a 24-year-old police officer for “intentional homicide”.
Sunday, April 24, the evening of the presidential election, the official shot dead two men driving a car.
The latter would have refused to comply while the police tried to carry out a check, before launching their vehicle in their direction.
The young policeman then fired a dozen times at the car, causing the death of the driver, the front passenger and injuring a man who was in the back.
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"He has the feeling that he saved the integrity of his colleague and the integrity of other colleagues [mis en danger, NDLR] by a vehicle that was going straight for them," said Frédéric Lagache.
“It is a court decision, taken by an examining magistrate, on the indictment of our colleague, who, I remind you, remains nevertheless, fortunately, always presumed innocent”, reacts for his part Grégory Joron d SFP national police unit, refusing to "comment on a court decision".
The policeman was left free, under judicial control.
He is prohibited from leaving the territory "with some exceptions", from appearing in Paris, from coming into contact with the police department to which he belongs for six months, from working as a police officer involving contact with the public, from wearing a weapon and to make contact with the victims.
He also has a duty of care.