A policeman shot and injured a young man in a car on Tuesday May 3 morning in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine) after refusing to comply, said the Nanterre prosecutor's office, requested by AFP and confirming a information from the newspaper Le Point.
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Around 5:30 a.m. in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), a motorist driving a Clio refuses to stop at a police checkpoint and heads towards Hauts-de-Seine.
The car was finally stopped in Courbevoie by a stick, a tool for puncturing tires, said the prosecution.
Locked-in passengers, tinted windows
According to the first elements of the investigation, the police are trying to get the passengers out of the vehicle with smoked windows, which lock themselves in the passenger compartment.
Unable to do so, one of the police officers broke a window with the butt of his service weapon and a shot was accidentally fired, according to his first statements.
One of the young passengers was injured in the leg and taken to hospital, the public prosecutor said, without being able to specify his state of health.
An investigation, entrusted to the departmental security of Hauts-de-Seine, was opened for aggravated refusal to comply.
The four passengers, three adult men and a minor woman, born between 2001 and 2004, were taken into custody.
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The policeman born in 1973, alleged perpetrator of the shooting, was also placed in police custody as part of an investigation entrusted to the IGPN for violence with a weapon by a person holding public authority.