On the night of Friday February 16 to Saturday February 17, 2024, a man was shot dead by police, in Paris shortly before 4 a.m. Aged 40, he walked around armed with a butcher’s blade in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. It all started around 3 a.m. on Boulevard d’Indochine. The man was at the Butte du Chapeau Rouge tram station when he asked another man for a lighter. The first then changed his behavior and showed himself “virulent“according to the story reported by our colleagues from Parisian, Saturday February 17, 2024. The forty-year-old would have spat on the man from whom he had asked for a fire, and would have revealed his butcher’s blade, hidden in his jacket. When he appeared to want to strike him, the second man stepped back and called for help. An RATP agent would have informed the police. The anti-crime brigade intervened on the spot. The agents allegedly asked the man armed with his blade to place it on the ground, without success. The Parisian reports that the police tried to speak with him in French and English, but the man of Sudanese origin did not seem to understand. The forty-year-old would have sat down on a bench while the brigade would have called for reinforcement.
Two investigations opened by the prosecution
When four police officers arrived quickly, the man threatened them with his blade. He would also have brandished, according to information from the daily, a “quranic book“It was then that two members of the police team allegedly used their electric weapons three times.”The barbs stuck but had no effect. The man continued to run at them with his chopper in his hand.“, specifies a source cited by The Parisian. Four of the seven agents decided to fire twenty-two rounds in his direction, according to the daily. The man was shot seven times and died at 3:52 a.m.after receiving a cardiac massage from the police and then the firefighters dispatched to the scene, reports the newspaper.
The prosecution opened two investigations. A first intended to investigate acts of violence with weapons against the police. The second entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) aims to investigate the causes of this man’s death. Cameras filmed the entire scene and the scientific police quickly intervened to collect the elements necessary for the proper investigation of the investigation. Finally, the body was taken for an autopsy to the Paris Forensic Institute.