Doves: three bullets, including one fatal, hit the attacker of the police

Three bullets fired by two police officers in Colombes on Friday evening hit the man who had attacked them while brandishing a knife.

According to the results of the autopsy, two of these projectiles caused non-fatal injuries.

The bullet that killed the victim hit him in the lower abdomen, in the pelvis area.

This injury resulted in fatal internal bleeding.

A fourth projectile would have grazed the attacker with a knife, while the fifth and final bullet neither hit nor grazed him.

This Tuesday, the results of toxicological analyzes were still unknown.

But it appears that the 40-year-old man, known to legal authorities only for shoplifting, was drunk.

Besides, the bottle he threw in the direction of the police officers is a bottle of wine.

During the night from Friday to Saturday and during the weekend, the hearings of the three police officers of the crew targeted by the victim and those of the witnesses followed one another at a sustained pace to reconstruct the precise sequence of events.

The man had at least two knives

Around 6:20 p.m. on Friday, while they were carrying out an ordinary check at the corner of Boulevard Charles-de-Gaulle and Rue des Gros-grès, the police from the territorial contact brigade saw the 40-year-old appear appearing. first threw the bottle in their direction, before brandishing a knife to rush towards them, while shouting "Allahu akbar".

In his bag there was at least one other knife.

If the anti-terrorist prosecution was "kept informed" from the start of the case, as indicated by the Nanterre prosecution, "the investigation has not yet revealed any radicalization of the person concerned, who would have been the subject of a psychiatric hospitalization ”, specified the prosecutor in a press release on Saturday.

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At this stage, the shooting distances for the police have not been established.

A ballistic expertise must be carried out to determine this.

This will also make it possible to establish which bullets fired the two police officers who used their weapons.

The case is the subject of two judicial inquiries, carried out by the departmental judicial police service and the General Inspectorate of the National Police.