Since Monday, Gilles G., a former officer of the anti-crime brigade (BAC), has been on trial for the murder of Olivio Gomes, a 28-year-old man killed on the night of October 16-17, 2020.
An unusual sentence. This Friday, March 27, the Versailles Assize Court found Gilles G., the officer who killed Olivio Gomes, guilty of murder and sentenced him to ten years in prison. While uncommon, this sentence remains well below the maximum limit of thirty years for this type of offense.
Even though the officer “has always claimed that he thought he was going to die, the conditions of legitimate self-defense, which must be assessed in light of the objective facts, were not met,” detailed the court president during the reading of the verdict, after over six hours of deliberation.
Since Monday, Gilles G., a former officer of the anti-crime brigade (BAC), has been on trial for the murder of Olivio Gomes, a 28-year-old man killed on the night of October 16-17, 2020. Yesterday, on the last day of requisitions in the trial, the attorney general, David Sénat, requested “justice” for society, “victim” in this case of “the loss of one of its own in a violent context, due to the abuse of his powers by one of its guarantors.”
The magistrate also requested the provisional execution of the prison sentence, the prohibition of exercising any security function in the public or private sector, a definitive ban on carrying a weapon, and the seizure of his weapons.
A version contradicted by video surveillance
That night, Gilles G. and his two BAC colleagues are in a black Passat, marked “police.” On the highway, the officers are tailing a vehicle on the Parisian periphery. They take the A13 and discreetly follow the Clio for about twenty kilometers.
Olivio Gomes is driving the city car. According to the officers, the almost thirty-year-old was driving “at high speed” and making “swerve movements.” But this version is largely contradicted by the video surveillance. The footage indeed shows that Olivio Gomes’ vehicle was driving fast but without violating traffic rules.
The officers claim that after fifteen minutes, they signaled for Olivio Gomes to exit the highway, which he does not immediately comply with. The young man takes the next exit and continues straight to his home. At the foot of his residence in the Beauregard neighborhood in Poissy (Yvelines), Olivio Gomes turns off the engine. It is then that Gilles G. steps out of the vehicle and points his weapon in his direction.
“He wanted to escape from the police”
With his gun pointed at him, Olivio Gomes allegedly restarted his car. Three shots followed. The second, fatal, pierced the two lungs and the thoracic aorta of the 28-year-old man, who died on the spot. Gilles G., who claims to have acted in self-defense, says that the driver tried to run him over with his vehicle.
“I was sure I would die,” stated the officer on Wednesday. But according to the attorney general, Olivio Gomes “used his vehicle not to kill, but to flee. He wanted to escape from the police.”
“I have no reason to believe the officers’ version, as they lied so much during the procedure to fabricate evidence. Lies about speeding, swerving, turn signals, traffic density… fraudulent collusion after the shots,” argued David Sénat. According to him, self-defense should have been ruled out, and the intent to kill fully established.
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