The policeman placed in police custody Tuesday morning, after the shooting which injured the passenger of a car at the end of a chase, has regained his freedom.
Tuesday evening, the prosecution lifted the coercive measure, which in no way interrupts the investigations.
According to the account of the policeman at the General Inspectorate of the National Police, in charge of the investigation opened for violence with a weapon by a police officer, it was by striking the butt in the window of the car that the blow left accidentally.
There is no reason to doubt this version.
However, it is a question of confirming it, or invalidating it, with evidence.
Concretely, a series of analyses, in particular ballistics.
So many investigations that it is impossible to complete in the maximum time of police custody.
The injured in custody at the hospital
If the police officer struck the rear right window of the Clio, finally stopped after a chase between Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) and Courbevoie, it is because the occupants of the vehicle were locked up there.
And that the police couldn't see how many there were because of the tinted windows.
The car had initially been chased by a police crew from 93, after a refusal to comply on the banks of the Seine.
The Clio headed south of Hauts-de-Seine to turn around at the Puteaux bridge and go up towards Courbevoie.
At the corner of the quays and rue des Ajoux, the crew of 92 rolled out a harrow to stop the car.
Then there was this broken window and the shot, which injured a young man in the thigh.
He was operated on Tuesday, placed in police custody on Wednesday morning and was to be questioned during the day.
The other occupants of the vehicle are also in police custody, as part of a second investigation, opened for aggravated refusal to comply.