A man was seriously injured after falling on the RER A rails, following an intervention by RATP security agents this Thursday, November 14. The agent was indicted this Saturday, November 16, for intentional violence. He was placed under judicial supervision.
An RATP security agent was indicted this Saturday, November 16, two days after a young man was seriously injured after being hit by an RER A train, at Nanterre-Université station.
While the circumstances of the facts still remain to be determined, the Nanterre public prosecutor's office indicates this evening that the investigations carried out “have made it possible to clarify the legal classification of the facts”. Thus “homicidal intent” was not accepted even though an investigation had been opened a few hours after the events, for attempted murder.
For the moment, the GPSR (Network Protection and Security Group) agent is being indicted “on the count of voluntary violence followed by incapacity for more than 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”.
The agent who was placed in police custody on Thursday is now placed under judicial supervision, including a professional ban and a ban on contact with the victim and his relatives.
Investigations continue
This Thursday, November 14, the 19-year-old was knocked off balance “during an intervention by an RATP security team”, before falling on the rails and being hit “by a train arriving at the platform” , according to the RATP press release.
According to the emergency services, cited by the RATP, “the victim's vital prognosis” was “not in jeopardy” but the young person was seriously injured.
The prosecution specifies in its press release that “the investigations will continue in this new legal framework to determine more precisely the circumstances of the action and the voluntary nature or not of it”.
Matthias Tesson with Alicia Foricher
