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.
The man, wounded in the chest, and the woman, hit in the head, are still between life and death. 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 three police officers interviewed are two men and a woman, we learned from a police source for a police custody that can last up to 48 hours. They are justified in particular with regard to the seriousness of the injuries, according to the source close to the investigation. The facts took place at the end of the morning on Saturday in the 18th arrondissement, in the north of the capital.
Driver ‘ran into officers’, according to police account
Police officers on mountain bikes first noticed “a car with four passengers, one of whom was not wearing his seatbelt”, another police source reported on Saturday. As they approach, the car “takes off at very high speed”. A little further on, as the officers again attempted to control him, the driver started up again and “ran into the ATV police crew”, according to the police account. The officials “then use their weapons” on several occasions and seriously injure “the driver and a passenger”, transported to 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 have consumed alcohol and cannabis,” reported another source familiar with the matter.