During an arrest on Wednesday in Nice, a man in his twenties was killed by a police officer. The man “was taken into custody for intentional homicide”.
A man in his twenties was killed by a police officer on Wednesday in the heart of Nice during his arrest, planned as part of the investigation into the death of a young man at Christmas in a city of the city . A series of arrests had been organized this Wednesday morning, as part of an open judicial investigation after the death of a 24-year-old man 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 policeman used his service weapon on one of the people targeted” by these arrests, said the magistrate. “For the moment, we have not found a weapon that could have been in the possession of the victim”, underlined the Nice prosecutor, specifying that the policeman, a member of the Nice judicial police, “has 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.
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