This Saturday, June 29, an off-duty police officer opened fire with his service weapon on a man who had broken into his grandmother’s house to squat. He then fired seven shots, killing the victim.
A police officer was indicted after killing an off-duty man on Saturday morning, June 29, in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis. The victim had broken into the garage of the civil servant’s grandmother’s house to squat there. According to initial findings from the investigation, the police officer allegedly used his service weapon after threatening the man, fatally injuring him.
The policeman shoots seven times
It was the grandmother of this police officer who called him, Saturday morning, around 6am. She was worried: she told him she had heard noises in her house. He was not on duty, but went straight to her house, in Bobigny, with his service weapon.
In the garage of this small house, he discovers a man. The police officer warns his colleagues of the situation, and asks them to intervene, while he holds the intruder back. While he waits for reinforcements, the situation escalates: according to the officer, the squatter becomes aggressive, and threatens him with an object.
The police officer claims that he then took out his service weapon and fired seven times: six bullets hit the victim’s body, who died from his injuries. Placed in police custody on Saturday, the police officer was brought before a court on Monday, July 1, with a view to his possible indictment for “murder by a person in a position of public authority”. The Bobigny prosecutor’s office has requested that he be placed under judicial supervision.
