![Dans la foulée de l'attaque survenue le 2 décembre 2023, Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, un ressortissant franco-iranien, avait été mis en examen et placé en détention provisoire à l'isolement. [Gauthier Bedrignans / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP]](/cdn-cgi/image/onerror=redirect,width=640,height=640,format=webp/https://storage.googleapis.com/uploads.mongoosehq.com/url/media/127571057/a80188c0789ff406a835c335d6e8d9fb7855ebb85b9aaf071b882cc3eb26659f)
Overview
- Marseille municipal police fatally shot a 26-year-old man during a traffic stop Thursday after he exited his car with a kitchen knife and advanced on officers, with one agent firing three times.
- Prosecutors opened a flagrant homicide inquiry and assigned it to the territorial crime unit, which interviewed the three municipal officers Friday.
- The victim was known to police and courts for drug trafficking, was under an arrest warrant and a ban from Marseille, and investigators found seven nitrous oxide canisters in his car.
- The city said the officers, ages 52, 38, and 22, were deeply shaken and were sent to a psychological support unit, while autopsy and toxicology tests are pending.
- In a related climate of scrutiny, two CRS 81 officers in Nice were taken into custody after a video showed a young man being beaten, and in Pau a court on Friday sentenced the former pupil who killed teacher Agnès Lassalle in 2023 to 15 years in prison.