Overview
- Gilles Guilbert, convicted Friday by the Versailles court of assizes, received 10 years in prison plus a 10-year ban from public office and a 15-year firearms ban.
- The court said self-defense was not proven based on objective facts and called the shooting neither necessary nor proportionate.
- Jurors cited the handgun used, three shots fired at under a meter, and impacts to a vital area to support the murder verdict.
- The case stems from an October 2020 tail that followed Gomes from Paris roads to his home in Poissy, where Guilbert fired three times and the second shot pierced both lungs and the thoracic aorta.
- During the trial, Guilbert admitted two shots were unnecessary as the prosecutor accused officers of inventing speeding and swerving claims; his lawyer filed an immediate appeal, and the victim’s family called the ruling a relief in a rare on-duty murder conviction in France.