A 32 -year -old man died after being injured throughout an intervention by the gendarmes | EUROtoday

A 32-year-old man died on Saturday morning after being injured throughout an intervention by the police in New Caledonia and a gendarme was positioned below the standing of witness assisted, in accordance with data communicated by the prosecution on the France-Presse company (AFP) on Sunday, September 21.

The demise of Fara Tournier was confirmed on Sunday to AFP by her household and the general public prosecutor, Yves Dupas. He was significantly injured Thursday night throughout an intervention in Plum (commune in Mont-Dore), south of the capital of the archipelago, Noumea.

According to Mr. Dupas, a patrol of three cellular gendarmes intervened within the night for a brawl in opposition to a background of alcohol on the sidelines of a celebration. The driver of a pick-up would then intentionally go for them, inflicting two pictures. The gendarme implicated defined that he was “Followed in immediate danger” and that he had not seen the presence on the street to the sufferer, “Unconscious discovery” After the 2 pictures, Yves Dupas stated in a primary press launch printed on Friday.

A model contradicted by witnesses interviewed by AFP. “There were three shots, and it was the first shot that reached Fara”stated Maiva, who was on the scene. The sufferer was, she stated “In the middle of a group of ten people, between the pick-up and the gendarmes. Anyone could have taken a bullet ”.

Mr. Dupas spoke about Friday the “Presence at the head [de la victime] of several fragments whose origin is in no way determined at this stage ”referring to medical observations. A witness who has rescue the victim assured AFP, under cover of anonymity, that “It’s a bullet that reached Fara in the head. He had a hole in the left eye, and a huge bump on the back of the skull ”.

The questioned gendarme was placed under the status of witness assisted as part of an investigation for “Voluntary violence that led to demise with out intention to present it, aggravated by means of a weapon”announced the prosecution on Sunday.