“Several police officers were placed in police custody” in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) in an investigation opened for violence in a meeting, at the beginning of July, in the Marseille city, on the sidelines of the riots which followed the death of Nahel , the prosecution announced on Tuesday.
Among the seven officials heard at the IGPN is a police commander. She was, like two colleagues, released on Wednesday according to our information. The other four police officers will be referred Thursday. Auditions are still ongoing.
These police custody intervene within the framework of the judicial investigation opened on July 5 following the injuries observed on a young man of 21 years, which had led to his hospitalization on the night of July 1 to 2, specifies the prosecution of Marseille, confirming the initial information from the television channel LCI. This judicial investigation had been opened for violence in meetings by a person holding public authority resulting in an ITT of more than eight days.
“The facts allegedly took place in the city center of Marseille”, specified the prosecution, without further details, in its press release announcing the opening of this investigation, including the judicial police and the General Inspectorate of the National Police, the font of fonts, were co-seized.
According to our information, the commander of the BAC center was not on site but nearby. Confronted with a video of the facts, told investigators that the images were of poor quality and that they did not identify the officials.
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According to BFMTV, seven police officers were initially placed in police custody for these facts: according to the victim’s version, when she left work to join a friend, she would have come across plainclothes police officers whom she identifies as a member of the anti-crime brigade (Bac). The young man would then have received a shot from a flash ball and would have been beaten up.
On July 4, the Marseille public prosecutor’s office announced the opening of another investigation, entrusted to these same two services, into the death of a 27-year-old young man, probably after a “violent shock to the chest” caused by a “flash-ball type” projectile in the city center of Marseille, during the same night from July 1 to 2.
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Mohamed Bendriss, married, father of a child and whose widow is expecting a second child, had lost his life after feeling unwell while riding a scooter. The city was then shaken by violent riots in the wake of the death of Nahel in Nanterre, killed by a police officer during a traffic check, and a strongly reinforced police force had been deployed. It was during his autopsy that the trace of what could be the impact of an LBD shot was spotted on his chest.
2023-07-19 18:00:39
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