on The 29th of may, the investigating judge concluded that a non-lieu, the author of the shooting could not be “identified with certainty”. The victim has appealed the decision.
The justice gave a non-place for the two police officers involved in the investigation on Jean-François Martin, a student éborgné by a shot from a LBD to Rennes in 2016, the author could not be “identified with certainty”, a-t-we learned this Friday with the prosecutor’s office in Rennes.
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The geography student, then 20 years old, had been injured during a demonstration on 28 April 2016 with a shot of LBD 40 (launcher ball defense) and had lost the use of his left eye, which had to be enucleated.
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Two police officers, Nicholas P., and Anthony P., had made use of their weapon at the time of the facts, and put under status of witness assisted for “voluntary violence having led to a crippled or mutilated permanently by a person agent of the public authority”.
on The 29th of may, the investigating judge concluded that a non-place, according to the requisitions of the prosecutor, said the prosecutor of the Republic of Rennes, Philippe Astruc, stating that the victim had appealed this decision.
“I expected”
According to the order, the investigations entrusted to the IGPN has not allowed “to identify with certainty the author of the shooting of LBD (…), it will be pronounced as a non-place”. “The use of force has been done right in light of the violence and assault are important that have been committed by the protesters to the address of the forces of law and order in a time contemporary to the facts,” says the prosecutor.
“I expected, there is a form of weariness to a justice that is very slow,” responded Jean-François Martin. “We are deploying means huge to find a demonstrator hidden in the middle of 5,000 people, but it is not able to find the police officer with a weapon”, loose there.
To his lawyer Arié Alimi, “it is a defence quite a classic of the hand of a police officer to prevent identify the perpetrator of the offence, particularly in the maintenance of order.” “What is dramatic is that it was the responsibility of the police, or denounce, or to testify one against the other, but obviously there is an omerta and it is unfortunate that the investigating judge has lent the hand in the act of silence”, he added.
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In January, the human rights Defender Jacques Toubon had called for disciplinary proceedings against the two police officers “for the use of disproportionate force”. It was pointed out that the police had not “realized in a precise manner the circumstances in which they have made use of their weapons”.
