Le Figaro Lyon
The future first cop of Lyon will arrive between Rhône and Saône with a sulphurous reputation.
Sent to justice for manslaughter in the Steve Caniço affair, Grégoire Chassaing will be promoted to head of the Lyon national police district at the beginning of June, according to information from
La Montagne
, confirmed to Le
Figaro
.
That is, only one week before being tried in Rennes as head of the security system on the evening of the death of the 24-year-old young man.
Steve Caniço disappeared after a police intervention on a barrier-free quay on the island of Nantes where a techno gathering was taking place on the evening of the 2019 Music Festival.
“The family of Steve Caniço is very surprised by this appointment which will give very important national functions to Commissioner Chassaing with probable law enforcement operations in a particularly tense situation in the summer of 2024 due to the Olympic Games
,” reacted his lawyer, Me Cécile De Oliveira near Le
Figaro.
It's an astonishing message sent by the hierarchy, he goes from Clermont to Lyon with a large number of police officers under his orders
.
“Significant volume of ammunition”
Grégoire Chassaing had already been transferred in September 2019, pending the results of the investigation.
He holds the position of deputy to the departmental director of public security for Puy-de-Dôme.
If the report of the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) considered that the operation was “
justified
” and “
not disproportionate
”, the General Inspectorate of Administration (IGA), contacted by Édouard Philippe, pointed out
“ the large volume of ammunition used by the police.”
Several people fell into the Loire that evening.
The Rennes public prosecutor's office finally announced last December the police officer's referral to criminal justice from June 10 to 14, 2024. The police officer was then presented by his lawyer as
"a single scapegoat"
, in this case following his dismissal, while a dismissal of the case had been ordered for sub-prefect Johann Mougenot and the others implicated in this case.