The public prosecutor indicated on Friday that nothing allowed “to date to contradict the accidental thesis put forward by the respondent”, after the shooting death of an individual in Nice, during a police operation.
Two days after the shooting death of an individual in Nice during a police operation that went wrong, the public prosecutor Xavier Bonhomme indicated this Friday afternoon by means of a press release that nothing allowed “to date to contradict the accidental thesis put forward by the respondent.The police commander who killed a man in his twenties during an arrest has been indicted for “manslaughter” and placed under strict judicial control.
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The police officer, a member of the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) of the Nice judicial police, was placed in custody for intentional homicide on Wednesday, as part of the flagrante investigation entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) of Nice.
“Accidental shot”
He said during his hearing that he had “no intention of taking the life of the victim» and states «of an accidental shooting related to the circumstances of the arrest“. “The investigations carried out in particular around the exploitation of videos of the scene of the facts, the hearings of witnesses as well as the collection of technical data on the weapon used“, go in the direction of this version, specified the parquet floor.
The investigating judge seized should then endeavor to continue the investigations in order to determine precisely the circumstances of the death of the 22-year-old victim. Technical examinations, not carried out within the framework of the flagrance investigation, should in particular be carried out. In addition, an autopsy of the victim carried out on Thursday determined that the death was consecutive to “a shot from a firearm having struck him at the level of the back of the lower lobe of the right ear“, specified the prosecutor.
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As a reminder, Wednesday, January 19, a judicial police operation carried out as part of a rogatory commission rue Buffa, in Nice, had slipped when a BRI official from the Nice PJ service had used his weapon, hitting one of the individuals targeted by said operation in the head. The victim, a 22-year-old young man from Marseille, died quickly from his injuries while being taken care of by the emergency services. The intervention on rue Buffa was initially aimed at arresting several individuals in connection with the homicide of a 24-year-old young man, Ermelindo G., shot dead on the night of December 24 to 25 in the Las Planas district, in Nice.