The investigation targeting two police officers who shot a man in 2021 in Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), who had threatened them with a knife while shouting "
Allah Akbar
", was dismissed in October, indicated Friday November 4 the Nanterre prosecutor's office, requested by AFP.
On October 22, 2021, during an identity check, this 40-year-old walked with a knife towards two police officers, shouting “
Allahu Akbar
”, in this city of more than 85,000 inhabitants located northwest of Paris.
These two police officers used their weapon in a “
necessary and proportionate
” way, estimated the prosecution which had seized the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) and closed the case in October 2022.
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Hit by four bullets
According to a source close to the case, the autopsy carried out in the wake of the facts showed that the individual had been hit by four bullets in the pelvis, thighs and neck.
Very quickly, the Nanterre prosecutor's office had ruled out the hypothesis of radicalization and had also opened a flagrant investigation for "
attempted murder of a person holding public authority
" entrusted to the Hauts-de-Seine judicial police.
This investigation was also dismissed.
The 41-year-old man was born in Seine-Saint-Denis and had a psychiatric history.