An urban rodeo turned to the confrontation on Friday evening in Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis), where a man was seriously injured by the police intervention. A police officer was also injured during the operation, but without having received a shooting, according to the first information from the Bobigny prosecution.
The incident took place near the city Youri Gagarin, while the police intervened to end an urban rodeo. “During an intervention on an urban rodeo, an individual was injured by a police shooter,” confirmed the prosecution, adding that the exact circumstances of the altercation were still very “vague” because of the number of stakeholders.
Two investigations were opened in connection with the facts that occurred on Friday evening in Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis), where a young adult was injured by bullet during a police intervention, the Bobigny prosecutor’s office said at AFP on Saturday.
“There are two procedures in parallel, one entrusted to the departmental service of the judicial police for violence on the police, and the other entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) for the opening of fire,” the public prosecutor told AFP.
Three people are in police custody in the context of the open procedure of the chief attempt to voluntary homicide on a person depositary of the public authority, said the prosecution.
-An amateur video runs on social networks
In an amateur video, widely relayed on social networks, we see two police officers struggling with several individuals around an overturned motocross. One of the agents, firearm in hand, performs summons before being suddenly jostled by a man dressed in a red sweater. It was then that a shot seems to sound. The following image shows the police officer drop and hold his arm. The man in a red sweater, on the other hand, no longer appears on the screen.
According to the prosecution, it was this man who was injured by bullet. He was immediately evacuated to a hospital. The young man injured by the ball of a police officer “is fine”, according to the prosecution on Saturday. He had been evacuated to the hospital in absolute emergency but without committed vital prognosis, according to a police source. The policeman who fell on the ground injured on the back was also transported to the hospital.
An important police system in place
According to a police source, the police were “taken to task by several virulent individuals”. A “crowd” formed around the agents who, “isolated”, have suffered “multiple projectile jets”. A police officer then used his service on several occasions by pulling in the air “to protect themselves and fled the attackers who were pursuing their actions,” said the same source. “It was in this context that the administrative weapon was made,” she said.
Our file on urban rodeos
An important police system has been deployed on the scene, as evidenced by videos published by residents. “Three arrests were carried out by the reinforcements, for contempt and rebellion,” he said. The tension in the district also disrupted the traffic of the T1 tram, whose service was interrupted in the area concerned, according to a publication on network X. At around 00:30, the premises were calm, with the exception of a major police deployment on the street where the facts occurred. An investigation is underway to determine the exact circumstances of this intervention. After The Parisian, Three arrests took place after the incident.
