The occupants of the car, “well known to the police”, had run into police officers on mountain bikes who wanted to check them on Saturday.
The three police officers who fired on a car in Paris on Saturday, seriously injuring the driver and his passenger, suspected of having wanted to escape control, were placed in police custody on Sunday afternoon at the General Police Inspectorate. national (IGPN), learned AFP from a source familiar with the matter.
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The state of health of the man, injured in the chest, has improved but and the woman, hit in the head, is still between life and death, according to a source close to the investigation. The three police officers interviewed are two men and a woman, we learned from a police source. Their police custody can last up to forty-eight hours. They are justified in particular with regard to the seriousness of the injuries, according to the source close to the investigation.
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Two investigations are open
Two investigations were opened, one entrusted to the IGPN targeting the police, the other to the Paris judicial police targeting the occupants of the car for attempted homicide on persons holding public authority. The facts took place at the end of the morning on Saturday in the 18th arrondissement, in the north of the capital.
Police officers on ATVs first noticed “a car with four passengers, one of whom was not wearing his seat belt“Said another police source on Saturday. As they approach it, the carflees at high speed“. A little further on, as the police again tried to control him, the driver started up again and “rush the ATV police crew“, according to the account of the police.
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The officials “then use their weapons“repeatedly and seriously injure”the driver and a passenger“, transported to the hospital, according to the police source. The two rear passengers, a man and a woman, were not injured and began to be heard on Saturday, according to the source familiar with the matter. “Some of the occupants are known to the services. They say they used alcohol and cannabis“, had reported another source close to the file.