Overview
- The two co-officers gave tense testimony at the Versailles assize court in the trial of BAC officer Gilles G., who is charged with voluntary homicide for the 2020 shooting of 28-year-old Olivio Gomes.
- The police watchdog IGPN and ballistics reports dispute the team’s story by finding no traffic offense, no excessive speed, and no swerving by the victim’s car.
- Expert findings place the shooter at the left side of the Renault Clio when he fired, which undercuts his claim that the restarting car put his life in danger.
- Testimony described broken radio links and a bad parking position that trapped the team leader in the police car until it reversed, which slowed his ability to direct the stop.
- Prosecutors pressed on a taught reflex to draw guns on refusals to comply, putting BAC training and plain-clothes methods under scrutiny as the court weighs responsibility for a death witnessed by the victim’s friends.