NEUVILLE. On the night of Monday to Tuesday, a man was killed by a police officer during a check in Neuville-en-Ferrain, near Tourcoing, in the North. What we know about the drama.
[Mise à jour le 30 août à 10h40] A check went wrong in Neuville-en-Ferrain (Nord), near Tourcoing, on the night of Monday August 29 to Tuesday August 30, 2022. The driver of a car was killed by a police officer who used his weapon on duty, it was announced by a police source to theAFP. How could such a tragedy take place? According to’AFPcited by BFM, police patrolling the town wanted to check, around 3 a.m., a vehicle that was parked “all lights off” on a sidewalk. But seeing the police approaching, the driver would then have started his car with a bang to try to flee. What the Lille prosecutor’s office confirms with The voice of the North : “While a police crew engaged the control of the occupants of a vehicle equipped with false license plates, the driver of the vehicle in question started suddenly in order to evade it.”
If the police source quoted by theAFP indicates that a police officer was injured when the driver started, The voice of the North does not mention it. The daily explains that one of the officials managed to open the driver’s door and shoot. A single bullet would have left the weapon, fatally hitting the man in the chest. It was a 23-year-old man, the prosecutor’s office told the local newspaper, from Roubaix. France Blue North. He died despite the care given to him by the police patrol present at the scene, then by the emergency services dispatched to the scene.
At his side was a passenger who was not injured but was arrested and placed in police custody for “concealment of vehicle theft and complicity in refusing to comply”. The police officer who used his weapon was also taken into custody. The IGPN has been seized.