The lawyer of the agent who shot the 17-year-old in Nanterre will appeal the preventive detention

His legal representative says he does not understand the protesters’ demands

June 29 () –

Laurent-Franck Lienard, the lawyer representing the police officer who shot the 17-year-old during a control in Nanterre, causing his death, announced Thursday that he will appeal the decision to keep him in pretrial detention.

His legal representative has indicated in an interview with the BFMTV network that the agent “is moved” and “devastated” by the death of the young man and that he has apologized to the family. “The first words he uttered were to ask for forgiveness”, he has sentenced himself.

The Government itself has questioned the actions of the agent during the control, captured by amateur video images that are already in the possession of the Prosecutor’s Office and that, in the opinion of the Public Ministry, prove that police excess could have been committed.

“He tries to shoot the driver’s leg and at that moment he is pushed by the car and ends up going up with the cannon. He shoots in a chest area that he obviously did not want to reach,” his lawyer said, adding that his gesture was “necessary ” to stop the vehicle.

Likewise, he has affirmed that he does not understand the demands of the protesters, since the protests should have ceased once his client had been placed in preventive detention. “What else do they want? Do they want their heads lopped off in public?” she has wondered.