An RATP agent was indicted on Saturday for intentional violence after a 19-year-old young man, unbalanced during an intervention by security agents, fell and was struck by an RER on Thursday, said the public prosecutor's office. Nanterre to AFP.
The investigating judge put the agent “in examination of the count of voluntary violence followed by incapacity exceeding 8 days aggravated by the circumstance that the acts were committed by a person entrusted with a public service mission and in a place intended for access to a means of collective passenger transport”, details the public prosecutor.
The investigation was initially opened for attempted homicide but the facts were reclassified “taking into account the causes of the fall such as the video surveillance and the witnesses interviewed have made it possible to consider them at this stage, without considering homicidal intent”, specifies the prosecution.
The “voluntary nature” of the action remains to be determined
The agent has been placed under judicial supervision with a professional ban and the investigation will continue “to determine more precisely the circumstances of the action and the voluntary nature or not of it”.
The young man's fall took place on Thursday around 1:30 p.m. at Nanterre Université station. It led to his hospitalization and caused “serious injuries”, according to the prosecution.
RATP CEO Jean Castex had requested that an internal investigation be immediately opened “in collaboration and transparency with the associations representing users who sit on the RATP board of directors”.
The mayor of Nanterre Raphaël Adam, for his part, said in a press release that he had spoken with the victim's parents, “a young 19-year-old from Nanter”, in order to their “to express (one’s) support and that of the city” face to “this terrible ordeal”.
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