A minor arrested as part of the investigation into the off-duty police officer injured on Sunday was referred Tuesday evening to the Paris prosecutor's office, which said Wednesday, December 1, that it had entrusted the investigations for attempted murder to an examining magistrate.
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The official who was not on duty at the time of the facts had been stabbed in a shopping center in Paris.
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The Paris prosecutor's office last night referred the minor placed in police custody last Sunday and today opened a judicial investigation on the count of attempted voluntary homicide
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The prosecution requested his placement in pre-trial detention, he added.
The custody of a second person arrested on Tuesday was lifted, without prosecution at this stage.
According to a source close to the investigation, the latter was arrested around noon and released in the early evening, around 7:30 pm.
An official of the Department of Proximity Security of the Parisian agglomeration (DSPAP), off duty and alongside his companion, was seriously injured by a stab on Sunday, after a dispute with several people, in the Italy 2 shopping center , in the 13th arrondissement of the capital.
His function as a police officer was a priori not known to the aggressors before the brawl, according to the first elements.