The arrest went horribly wrong.
A man in his twenties was killed by a police officer in the heart of Nice on Wednesday.
A series of arrests had been organized in the morning, as part of an open judicial investigation after a 24-year-old man was shot dead on the night of December 24 to 25 in the Nice district of Las Planas.
“One of these arrests went wrong,” explained the Nice public prosecutor, Xavier Bonhomme, in an improvised press briefing on the spot, rue la Buffa, in the heart of the Riviera city.
“A police officer used his service weapon on one of the people targeted” by these arrests, reported the magistrate, adding that he was unaware of “the precise circumstances” of the shots.
Policeman in custody
"For the moment, we have not found a weapon that could have been in the possession of the victim," said the Nice prosecutor.
He specified that the policeman, member of the judicial police of Nice, had "been placed in police custody for intentional homicide" and that the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) of Nice was seized of the file.
The victim, born in 1999, died around 12:30 p.m.
According to a witness interviewed on the spot by AFP, only one shot was fired.
The Nice-Matin daily reports, moreover, that a man is still actively sought by the police.
According to the Actu.fr site, several people are in custody as part of the initial investigation into the Christmas Eve murder.