In Marseille, a man was discovered dead, probably killed by LBD fire from the police according to the prosecution.
Did a man die in Marseille following a shot by a police officer mobilized as part of an intervention during the riots? This is what will endeavor to determine an investigation opened by the IGPN in the Marseille city as well as the public prosecutor’s office of the city, which has opened a judicial investigation on the count of fatal blows with the use or threat of a weapon.
The case dates back to the night of Saturday 1er to Sunday July 2, 2023. That evening, a man was discovered dead on the cours Lieutaud, not far from the historic center of Marseille. According to the autopsy carried out, the individual died as a result of a “violent shock to the chest”, caused by a projectile type flashball or LBD, said the prosecution.
Several gray areas
Who fired? For what ? The investigation opens and the operation of surveillance cameras should make it possible to learn more. The first elements of the file indicate that the victim was a priori traveling on a scooter and that police forces had been deployed in the area because of the riots and looting that occurred that night. But at this point, “he [n’est pas] possible to determine if the victim had participated or even if he had been able to circulate in such an area”, specified the prosecution.
In addition, the precise location where the man was hit by the flashball has not yet been determined. But it seems to have happened not far from where his body was discovered since “the impact had caused cardiac arrest, and therefore death in the near future.”