“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, in a press release, the public prosecutor of Coutances, Gauthier Poupeau.
To control a vehicle traveling at excessive speed
On Sunday evening, a crew of three police officers attempted to control a vehicle driving at excessive speed in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Cherbourg prosecutor Pierre-Yves Marot said on Monday, who withdrew in favor of the pole. of the Coutances instruction.
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 intentionally pushed one of them while fleeing,” said Pierre-Yves Marot. “The official then used an electric shock gun” while “another agent used his firearm, fatally hitting him in the chest,” according to the Cherbourg public prosecutor’s office.
“Urban violence” in Cherbourg
The death of the young man led to a series of “urban violence” in Cherbourg, said the Manche prefecture, on X. Several orders were taken to prohibit the transport and sale of fireworks and fuel in containers transportable or for “authorization of the capture of images from aircraft cameras”, specifies the prefect in this message.
