Hedi case: the police officer released, the victim denounces "an injustice"

The police officer who fired the LBD shot was released on Friday, after 40 days of pre-trial detention, and placed under "judicial supervision" with a ban on practicing his profession. Hedi said he was "very disappointed" by this decision. The young man denounces "a form of injustice". "I tell myself that they are giving him the opportunity to get out, when he has admitted it after so many lies [...] It’s not honest," he lambasted on Saturday in a statement to BFMTV reported by Le Parisien.

"I’m not a judge and I imagine they had a good reason to make this decision even if for the moment I don’t see it," he added, maintaining his version of the facts and accusing the police officer of having targeted him without reason while he was not participating in the riots. "I think it’s an excuse [...] We can’t be afraid of me, I’m nice, I didn’t make any threatening gestures, I didn’t throw anything," he assured.

The young man also accuses three other police officers of having violently assaulted him, stressing that the investigators will be able to have proof of it by viewing the surveillance cameras in the area. Hedi reassures about his health: "My neurosurgeon thinks it’s going well [...] he was able to schedule the next operation which will be to put my flap (the missing part of his skull) back," he explained, deploring the lack of support from the State.

For the lawyer of the police officer in question, the latter "never wanted to seriously injure him (Hedi)". Me Pierre Gassend assures that "the engagement of the LBD shot was made in a timely manner and within a regulatory framework", adding that with the hood the young man was wearing that night "in a sector where looting has just taken place", the police officer could "legitimately think that you have a suspicious attitude" and that it is not established that the LBD shot is the cause of Hedi’s injury.