A police officer, who shot and killed a 19-year-old young man after a check on Sunday evening in Cherbourg (north-west of France), was charged on Tuesday with intentional homicide, the local prosecutor’s office announced.
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“The police officer was placed under strict judicial supervision” which notably prohibits her from going to Cherbourg, from exercising police activity and requires her to submit to examination, treatment or care measures, not to hold or carry a weapon, added the public prosecutor in Coutances Gauthier Poupeau in a press release.
On Sunday evening, a crew of three police officers attempted to control a vehicle driving at excessive speed in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, the judicial authorities indicated on Monday.
The driver “did not comply with the warnings” and continued on his way before being forced to stop by the vehicle of a second police crew.
The three occupants then fled on foot, one managed to escape, another was arrested and taken into custody for receiving stolen goods, the vehicle being reported as stolen, again according to the Cherbourg public prosecutor’s office.
“The third individual, a young man aged 19 from Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, found himself facing two of the police officers from the second crew and deliberately pushed one of them while fleeing,” he said. we specified from the same Source.
“The official then used an electric pulse gun” while “another agent used his firearm, fatally hitting him in the chest,” according to the Cherbourg public prosecutor’s office.
At the end of the police custody measure, she was “presented to an investigating judge” and charged “with intentional homicide”, indicated the Coutances prosecutor.
The death of the young man led to a series of “urban violence” in Cherbourg, the Manche prefecture said on X. Several orders were taken to prohibit the transport and sale of fireworks and fuel in transportable containers or for “authorization of the capture of images from aircraft cameras”, specifies the prefect in this message.
