Me Eddy Arneton, lawyer for the families of two men killed on the Pont-Neuf on April 24, estimated Wednesday, May 18 on RTL that the indictment of a police officer for “
intentional homicide
” was “
totally justified
”.
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“
When we shoot individuals ten times and they die, the intention to kill is characterized, there is no debate
”, estimated Me Arneton, who intervenes in other cases of police violence. .
“Justice works normally”
For him, the investigating judge had the "
courage to see the obvious: the intention to kill is not contestable
" and the offense retained for this indictment, "
intentional homicide
", punishable by assizes, is "
totally justified
".
This qualification sparked protest police rallies, which is "
very surprising
" for the lawyer for the families of Boubacar and Fadigui, because "
justice is functioning normally
".
According to a police intervention report consulted by AFP, during a police check, the driver of the car started and "
ran towards one of the officials who moved away to avoid him
".
The only police officer armed with an assault rifle, a member of the City Security Company (CSC), then opened fire, killing the two individuals and wounding a third.
Victims “known for narcotics”
"
It's the police version,
" summarized Mr. Arneton.
But “
you have to have the humility to say at the start of the procedure that you can't know everything.
Questions arise about the will to flee, about the positioning of the police officers, about the shots on the windshield, on the side window,
”according to the lawyer.
While a source close to the case had indicated that the two victims were "
unfavorably known, among other things for narcotics
", the lawyer could not "
confirm
it " because "
in the procedure, for the time being, there is no 'there is no criminal record
' of the two victims.
This information "
comes from any police service
", according to him.
“
If it is a question of making us believe that in the event of illegal activity, that legitimates that we kill two people, I affirm that it is not possible
”, added Me Arneton.
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The lawyer finally underlined the "
leniency
" enjoyed by the peacekeeper, indicted but left free under judicial control.
“
We would be in another file with someone who shot two people ten times, naturally that person would be in pre-trial detention
,” he noted.
“
How do you explain that a young man of 24 finds himself in the streets of Paris with an assault rifle?
“, he also questioned.
