This Sunday morning, a ribbon prevents passers-by from approaching 18 place Pierre-Semard, an address backed by the pharmacy at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges station (Val-de-Marne). Many police officers come and go at the end of the alley where this building is located.
“At 7 a.m. there were already police officers, it was blocked,” testifies the customer of a café located a few numbers from 18, which opens at this time. Among the residents waiting for their bus in front of the station, no one knows that a man was killed by a police officer a few hours earlier.
The police were called around 6 a.m. for a neighborhood dispute. A crew of three officials who had just started duty arrived very quickly. They were told of a man banging on a door, shouting “Allah Akbar” (God is great), with a weapon, real or fake, the investigation will have to verify it. Words that this man would have reiterated, while pointing at the police. An official opened fire three times. Hit in the stomach, the man died on the spot.
According to a police source, the deceased man was from Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, but he did not live at the address where the police intervened. He was 30 years old.
At this stage, the investigation is open for intentional violence leading to death without intention of causing it. She targets the policeman.
Hearings are underway to confirm the circumstances of the homicide, if self-defense can be accepted. And understand the intentions of the victim as well as their dangerousness, knowing if they were spotted by the intelligence services or known for psychiatric follow-up. Blood alcohol and toxicological analyzes are also planned.
