An RATP agent was indicted on Saturday, November 16, 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 Wednesday, declared the Nanterre public prosecutor's office to Agence France-Presse.
The investigating judge put the agent “in examination of the count of voluntary violence followed by incapacity exceeding eight 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 an attempted homicide but the facts were ultimately 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.
Placed under judicial supervision
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 whether it was voluntary or not”.
The young man's fall took place on Wednesday around 1:30 p.m. at Nanterre-Université station. It led to his hospitalization and caused “serious injuries”according to the prosecution.
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The CEO of RATP, 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, said in a press release that he had spoken with the victim's parents, “a young 19-year-old from Nanter”in order to “to share [son] support and that of the city » facing “this terrible ordeal”.
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