"We want to tell them that we share their pain."
The family of the driver who refused to stop during a police check on Saturday in Paris held a press conference this Thursday morning in the 13th arrondissement of the capital.
And began by addressing the relatives of the 21-year-old young woman, a passenger in the car, who succumbed to her injuries after being shot in the head, while the police were firing to stop the car.
“Today, my brother is still in intensive care, he is in bad shape but his condition is improving, continues Sonia, who has “not seen him yet”.
“From his mouth, I didn't get his version.
What I do know is that my brother would never have been able to run into the police”.
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"He had problems with the law, but that does not justify the violence that was done this Saturday on him and the people in the car" continues his sister, before adding: "Yes it's true, he has refused to comply surely for fear of returning to prison, he did not have a driving licence.
But the police were not aware of all this.
And nine cartridges for a refusal to comply, it is inadmissible”.
"Let's stop criminalizing the victims, the police unions and the police must stop swinging the criminal records of each other to justify" their actions.
"They are the ones responsible for the moment", asserts Amal Bentounsi, of the collective "Silence, our police murder", and whose brother was shot in the back by a police officer in 2012 after having refused to s stop at a police checkpoint.
A refusal to comply, not "a situation of danger"
"Nothing justified the use of firearms in this context", attacks in turn Me Ibrahim Shalabi, the driver's lawyer.
“A refusal to comply has never been considered a dangerous situation.
(...) There were nine shots.
There was a high probability that other people would be injured,” he said.
Maître Laurent-Franck Liénard, lawyer for the three police officers, reacted to this accusation on BFMTV: “This lawyer talks about things he does not know.
My clients say that if they hadn't fired, they would have died today because the car would have run into them.
The debates, we will have them before the examining magistrate.
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