The images circulated at night already in all. A motorized police patrol tries to prevent a motorcycle race in the Parisian suburb of Drancy, northeast of the French capital. While the police managed to intercept one of those motorcycles, a group of young people tried to recover it, according to one of the videos, apparently recorded shortly after the attempt to confiscate the motorcycle, three young people are seen to face the police, who point to their weapons near a motorcycle fallen in the ground. One of the two police officers is equipped with an electric shock gun, and the other with their regulatory weapon. The latter makes at least two shooting in the air as a warning, asking the three individuals who go back. One of them challenges the police to shoot. The other tip his partner a kick, throwing him to the ground. At that time one of the agents opens fire, at least three times, seriously injuring one of the 18 -year -old boys.
The man, reached by a bullet on the thigh about 19.30, was transferred by helicopter to Henri Mondor de Créteil hospital, with “Committed vital prognosis”, according to emergency services. The two police officers were also treated at the hospital: the one who shot, by cervical and back pain; The other, being in shock.
The situation brings to memory other violent incidents with the police in certain neighborhoods of France that ended with revolts. The incident, which was also recorded on video, caused several nights of disturbances in the neighborhoods of the Parisian periphery to protest against police violence.
A few minutes later, in fact, the first clashes occurred in the place despite the presence of numerous police forces. Three arrests would have already been made tonight for 10 pm. In addition, the city of Drancy reported Friday night that “has deployed street mediators” in the affected area, while the deputy mayor of the neighborhood is present at the scene.
A law approved in 2017 requires the circumstances in which police and gendarmes can make use of their weapons. Input, they can be used only “in case of absolute need and strictly proportionate.” The rule adds: “When [los agentes] They fail to immobilize except through the use of weapons, vehicles, vessels or other means of transport, whose conductors do not comply with the order to stop and whose occupants are likely to perpetible, in the flight, attacks against their life or physical integrity or that of others ”.
