A 28-year-old man who was fleeing a traffic check in Paris was killed overnight from Friday to Saturday in Poissy (Yvelines) by the shooting of a police officer while he was rushing at him.
Between 2 and 3 a.m., a crew from the Paris anti-crime brigade (BAC) spots a car, a Clio, driving erratically on the ring road.
Four men are on board.
The police try to control them at Porte Maillot.
The driver refused to comply and fled via the Saint-Cloud gate on the A13.
The BAC police chased him in the direction of Yvelines.
The car is still moving at high speed, it does not take any exit for 25 km.
Two passengers in custody
Arrived at a parking lot in the district where the motorist stops his car, one of the three police officers goes out to stand in front of the vehicle.
It is then, according to a police source, that the driver starts again at high speed, "endangering the police officer who, when the car passes, opens fire and fatally injures the driver", according to the prosecution.
Despite the care provided, according to a police source, the driver died.
A passenger managed to escape.
The two others, aged 29 and 33 and from Yvelines like the victim, were arrested and placed in police custody.
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An investigation for refusal to comply and attempted homicide on the police officer was entrusted to the Departmental Security by the Versailles prosecutor's office.
Another investigation was entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), as every time a police officer opens fire.
