A sixth suspect was indicted and jailed in the investigation of the attack and the burning of a police car in the capital, are we learned Saturday judicial source. According to sources close to the file, French 39, a computer without a criminal record, is suspected of having participated directly, 18 May, to the attack of the police vehicle in which were two agents. Slightly wounded, the two officials had got out of the car that was ablaze after a shooting smoke.
The sixth suspect, a native of Saint-Denis, near Paris, was arrested Wednesday night around the Place de la Nation, after he attended a rally in the twelfth arrondissement, a source close to the matter. A judge was indicted for “attempted murder” on police violence on police and tape degradation and organized participation in an armed gathering with concealment of the face. In this case, five other suspects already indicted for the same offense and three of them are in custody.
According to a source close to the case, the sixth alleged assailant, who has no links with other protagonists, is believed to have struck with an iron bar shots, one of two policemen Kevin Philippy, the interior minister had praised the composure and “extreme control”. Identified thanks to “the exploitation of video images,” the suspect remained silent face investigators who questioned him in custody, according to judicial sources.
The other suspects in the case have them was identified by an anonymous witness. But it turned out to be that of an undercover police officer on site, his name on a report by mistake. Lawyers for indicted denounce unfair investigation and without proof. Close to some of the anti-fascist movement, recognize their presence at the scene but deny having taken part in the violence. The sixth suspect is not related to these environments, a source close to the case.
Anti-Fascist Action Paris-Banlieue group showed on June 4 in Paris in tribute to one of its militants Clement Meric, killed three years ago in a fight with skinheads, has supported the “indicted on 18 May.” The march, which brought together several hundred antifascists, had led to clashes between demonstrators and police.
The facts took place near the Republic Square, where a demonstration against-prohibited degenerated sidelines of an unprecedented gathering to call police unions against the “anti-hate cops.” The images of the scene, widely circulated on the internet, had caused outrage: several hooded people attacked the car turns, one breaking a window, another striking a policeman, another still breaking the rear window to the using a metal stud. Finally, someone threw a lit smoke in the car, causing a fire and forcing the officers to get out.
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