man killed by riot police wielding a toy gun
The young man killed by riot police during a chase near Lyon was born in Créteil (Val de Marne) and was known police that "an extremely minor," said a judicial source said Thursday. The woman driving the car, registered in the Val-de-Marne, in turn, is unknown to police.Moreover, the weapon-wielding passenger, aged 19, was actually a toy gun, as assumed initially. "It was not a real weapon," confirmed the prosecutor of Lyons, Marc Desert.
"We do not know what was going through their head"
It had all started Wednesday around 16 hours on the A7 up Vienna, near Grenoble, where motorists had reported to the police the strange behavior of a red Peugeot 107, registered in the Val-de-Marne, which passenger waving a gun out the window. Chased by the gendarmes and riot police, reinforced with a helicopter, race car had continued for nearly an hour at a brisk pace before being immobilized on the N6 towards Saint-Bonnet-de- Mure, in the Rhone. Exiting the vehicle, the passenger had brandished his weapon toward the CRS, which had reached a bullet in the chest. "We do not know not what has been going through their head, "said a judicial source.
The young man who was killed lived Créteil and was known to police "for an extremely minor," the source said. Investigators were still searching Thursday morning for possible psychiatric history.
LeParisien.fr 
