A RATP agent was charged on Saturday, November 16, with intentional violence after a 19-year-old young man, unbalanced during an intervention by security agents, fell and was run over by an RER on Wednesday, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office declared to the Agence Francia-Presse.
The investigating judge put the agent “in the examination of the charge of voluntary violence followed by incapacity of more than eight days aggravated by the circumstance that the acts were committed by a person in charge of a public service mission and in a place intended for access to a means of public transportation passengers »details the prosecutor.
The investigation was initially opened for attempted homicide but the events were finally reclassified “Taking into account the causes of the fall such as video surveillance and the witnesses interviewed has allowed them to be considered at this time, without considering homicidal intent.”the prosecutor’s office specifies.
Placed under judicial supervision
The agent has been placed under judicial supervision with a professional ban and the investigation will continue “determine more precisely the circumstances of the action and whether it was voluntary or not”.
The young man’s fall occurred on Wednesday around 1:30 p.m. at the Nanterre Université station. This led to his hospitalization and caused “serious injuries”according to the prosecutor’s office.
The director general of the RATP, Jean Castex, had requested that an internal investigation be opened immediately “in collaboration and transparency with the representative associations of users that are part of the RATP board of directors”.
The mayor of Nanterre, Raphaël Adam, stated in a press release that he had spoken with the victim’s parents. “a 19-year-old young man from Nanter”in order to “share [son] support and that of the city » facing “this terrible experience”.
