The family of the young man who died in Lille one month after being shot by a policeman during an intervention for the theft of a car in which he seemed implicated, filed a complaint for violence resulting in death. "We filed Wednesday with the public prosecutor a complaint against X for violence resulting in death with aggravating circumstances, on the one hand with the use of a weapon and on the other hand by person depositary of public authority" , told AFP one of the lawyers of the family, Benoît Cousin, confirming information from the Voix du Nord .
This complaint is intended to "ask for the light on the shooting" by the police on the morning of December 1 and to trigger "the opening of a judicial inquiry". The lawyers of the family, Abderrahmane Hammouch, Benoît Cousin and Alice Cohen-Sabban could also file a complaint with civil suit "if there is no reaction of the prosecution."
Involved in the theft of a car? Questioned by AFP, the prosecutor's office of Lille confirmed Thursday the filing of a complaint for "facts described as intentional violence with a weapon that resulted in death without intention to give it by agent depositary of public authority." "Upon the occurrence of these facts, the prosecution had seized the general inspectorate of the national police of an investigation which continues now," he simply recalled.
The young man, aged 24, died on the night of December 31 to January 1: a month earlier, he was seriously injured, hit by a police shot during an intervention of the Crime Squad (BAC) for the theft of a car, in which he appeared implicated according to a police source. During the intervention, at the wheel of another car, he would have deliberately "sunk on the police officer, who made use of his weapon and touched it", had then reported this same source.