A little over two weeks after the death of a young woman killed by the police after refusing to comply in Paris, an investigation was opened this Friday in Carcassonne after a police officer from the Carcassonne anti-crime brigade used of his weapon and injured a driver who refused to stop, reports the Independent.
The facts took place a little before 9:30 p.m. in the Carcassonne station sector, then in the narrow streets of the city center, in the Bastide sector.
A patrol of the BAC (Anti Crime Brigade) would then have spotted an individual with dangerous driving.
Refusing to obey their orders on several occasions, this vehicle would have suddenly reversed when the officials had just got out of their car.
A maneuver which would have had the effect of blocking the latter, as well as one of the agents, against a wall, injuring a police officer, according to an article from France 3.
Two opposing versions
The individual would then have gone forward, in the direction of the rest of the police facing him, with the aim of hitting them.
The decision to open fire was therefore taken by one of the police officers, who fired several times.
Wounded in the thigh and shoulder, the driver, aged about forty, was hospitalized in emergency in Carcassonne.
His vital prognosis would not be engaged.
Supported by the Alliance union, the police officer in question pleads self-defense.
The family of the fugitive, relying on a video of the arrest circulating on social networks, affirms that he was hit by the police's shots when he got out of his vehicle.
She filed a complaint, according to the Independent.
Heard alongside his colleagues from the Bac this night and this Saturday morning by the Judicial Police (PJ) of Perpignan, the policeman was not placed in police custody, an investigation was opened by the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police) to shed light on the circumstances of the incident.
