Categories for manslaughter were charged yesterday, Wednesday, against a French police officer who shot and killed a 19-year-old from Guinea during a traffic control on June 14 in southwestern France, the Angouleme public prosecutor’s office said.

Stephanie Awin, the prosecutor of Angouleme, pointed out that the police officer was “prohibited from carrying a weapon and practicing his profession” after being charged with “manslaughter”. The 52-year-old police officer was taken into custody yesterday morning.

On June 14, early in the morning in a suburb of Angouleme, Alhoussein Kamara was fatally shot by a police officer while trying to avoid arrest during a traffic control.

According to the investigation, two police vehicles tried to close the road to Kamara to check him. Then the young man reversed and then moved at high speed towards the police officers, as a result of which he hit one of them in the legs. The policeman shot him.

“Toxic tests showed that the driver of the vehicle he had not consumed alcohol or drugs” and “apparently” he was going “to his work”, added the Angouleme prosecutor.

The police officer did not record the incident, “despite the fact that he had a camera on him”, but it was not “sufficiently charged at the time of the incident”, she noted.

The young man from Guinea arrived in France in 2018 and was working in a supermarket logistics base, where he was going on the morning of the tragic event, according to his relatives. As the prosecution pointed out, he was not known to the authorities.

After his death, around 1,000 people marched for justice, including Guinea’s ambassador to France, Chinkoun Sylla.

This case has similarities to the death on Tuesday in Nanterre, near Paris, of Nael, a 17-year-old shot by a police officer for trying to avoid a traffic stop.

She is the third time this year that a policeman in France kills a citizen during a traffic control.