Court sentences French state to pay €15,000 to man injured in police intervention

By Nur Asena Erturk

ANKARA (AA) – Judicial court in Paris sentenced the French state to pay €15,000 ($16,250) to a young man who was hit by a shot in his eye in 2019 during police intervention, according to daily Le Figaro on Wednesday.

The 23-year-old man was hit in his eye with a blast ball shot by a police officer during the intervention in urban outbreaks of violence in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie near Paris.

Amadou N., who was then at the age of 19, lost his eye after the injury.

The victim was initially suspected of implication in the ambush against police at the time of the events, but he proved that he was only a third person going to his home during the incident.

The judicial court eventually decided that the state must pay €15,000 in compensation for bodily harm.