Police officers opened fire on a vehicle whose occupants refused to comply, on the Pont Neuf, in the heart of Paris. There would be two deaths.
Police fired Sunday night in Paris at a vehicle that tried to hit them, killing two occupants of the vehicle and injuring a third, AFP learned from a police source.
The facts took place on the Pont-Neuf, in the center of the capital. According to the first elements collected, according to this same police source, the vehicle was traveling in the wrong direction when the police wanted to control it. He then allegedly ran into the officers who used their weapon, it was added.
A magistrate was expected at the scene where a security perimeter was set up, the same source said, adding that the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN, “Police des polices”) had been seized. . This is systematically the case as soon as a police officer uses his weapon.