Wednesday saw the sixth day in the trial surrounding the deadly shooting of a motorist by a police officer in Bonnevoie, with experts focusing on the adequacy of the defendant's reaction in the face of danger.

Although the trial already lasted 18 hours, a lot of questions about what exactly happened on that April day of 2018 are still open.

The report of an engineer states that the drink driver missed the police car only "narrowly". When did the officer decide to fire his service weapon, and was this according to instructions taught at the police academy? On Wednesday, the judge sought to answer these questions, among other things.

On Tuesday, newspapers Wort and Quotidien reported that a ballistics expert determined that the first shot was fired from close distance, a maximum of 3.7 metres.

Another expert, on the other hand, evaluated that the car had already started to pass the officer at the time of the first shot, which means that the defendant was no longer in immediate danger when he chose to shoot. The defendant's lawyer countered by saying that the car only changed direction 0.7 seconds before a potential collision, which indicates that his client's life was in fact in danger when he decided to fire.

Experts in police service weapons believe that shooting at a car is pointless since bullets are not able to stop a motorised vehicle. Nevertheless, they also acknowledged that these types of situations are not trained in the police academy. "Officers do not have to risk being run over", said an academy instructor in court on Wednesday.

Whether or not the reaction of the officer was justified thus remains unclear.