The octogenarian died on December 2, 2018 after receiving a tear gas grenade in the face fired by the police on the sidelines of a yellow vest demonstration. The police officer responsible for the shooting was indicted in mid-September, we learned this Thursday, November 28.
Six years after the events, a new twist. The CRS author of a tear gas grenade shot which fatally hit Zineb Redouane at the end of 2018 in Marseille was indicted for involuntary manslaughter, we learned this Thursday, November 28 from a source close to the case and from the lawyer from the victim’s family, confirming information from the Monde.
The police officer was indicted on September 12, according to a source close to the case and the lawyer for the victim’s family, by the judges responsible for investigating this case, who has been displaced in Lyon since 2019 due to suspicion of collusion between the Marseille prosecutor’s office and the police officers involved. “Justice knew from the start that it had to indict this police officer, but lacked courage in the face of all the pressure that existed in the case”declared Me Yassine Bouzrou, lawyer for the children of Zineb Redouane, “relieved” more “angry” after waiting six years for the police officer to be indicted.
A grenade hit in the head from his building
At the beginning of December 2018 in Marseille, while she was at her window, on the 4th floor of her building, Zineb Redouane, 80, received shrapnel from a tear gas grenade fired from the street by the police who were trying to disperse demonstrators during Act III of the yellow vest movement. She died of her injuries the next day in a city hospital. His death caused great emotion in France at the time.
An expert report concluded in June 2020 that the shot had been carried out according to the rules (bell trajectory) and had hit her accidentally. A few months later, an independent second opinion contradicted the first report, validating the thesis of a direct shot, that is to say direct, strictly prohibited in front of a residential building, according to the regulations of use of the weapon.
In its report in 2021, the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) estimated that the CRS had indeed carried out a regulatory shot, without deliberately targeting the victim, but had failed to “the obligation to discern through manifestly inappropriate action”. In the conclusions of its administrative investigation, the IGPN recommended a referral to the disciplinary council of the CRS responsible for the shooting, as well as of his supervisor at the time of the events, a recommendation which had not been followed internally by the national police.
Updated at 3:40 p.m. with more context.
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