Two days after the shooting death of an individual in Nice during a police operation that went wrong, the public prosecutor Xavier Bonhomme indicated this Friday afternoon by means of a press release that nothing allowed "
this day to contradict the accidental thesis put forward by the respondent.
»
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The police officer, placed in police custody for intentional homicide within the framework of the flagrancy investigation entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) of Nice, affirmed during his hearing to have had "
no the intention to attempt the life of the victim
" and mentions "
an accidental shooting linked to the circumstances of the arrest
".
And the magistrate clarified that “
the investigations carried out in particular around the exploitation of videos of the scene of the facts, the hearings of witnesses as well as the collection of technical data on the weapon used
”, go in the direction of this version.
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The police officer was referred this Friday for the opening of a judicial investigation on the count
of "manslaughter by manifestly deliberate violation of an obligation of security and prudence
".
The prosecutor will then request placement under strict judicial supervision.
The investigating judge seized should then endeavor to continue the investigations in order to determine precisely the circumstances of the death of the 22-year-old victim.
Technical examinations, not carried out within the framework of the flagrance investigation, should in particular be carried out.
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In addition, an autopsy of the victim carried out on Thursday determined that the death was the result of "
a shot from a firearm having struck him at the level of the back of the lower lobe of the right ear
", said clarified the prosecutor.
As a reminder, Wednesday, January 19, a judicial police operation carried out as part of a letter rogatory rue Buffa, in Nice, had slipped when a BRI official from the Nice PJ service had used his weapon, hitting one of the individuals targeted by said operation in the head.
The victim, a 22-year-old young man from Marseille, died quickly from his injuries while being taken care of by the emergency services.
The intervention on Buffa Street was initially intended to arrest several individuals in connection with the homicide of a 24-year-old young man, Ermelindo G., shot dead on the night of December 24 to 25 in the Las Planas district, in Nice.
