A 30-year-old man died Friday morning at the Paris hospital where he was admitted Thursday, after receiving around ten electric shock gun shocks during his arrest by the police in Montfermeil (Seine-Saint-Denis), AFP learned from the Bobigny prosecutor’s office. According to the first elements of the investigation cited by the prosecution, six police officers used their electric pulse pistol. There were 18 officials who intervened in a grocery store in Montfermeil, Thursday shortly after midnight, to arrest this man, in a “state of overexcitement” and “aggressiveness,” according to the same source.
An intervention that goes wrong
According to a police source, a first crew from the anti-crime squad intervened and was attacked by the man. A civil servant is injured in the finger and face. Reinforcements arrive on the scene and the officials repeatedly use an electric pulse gun (PIE, which projects prods connected to the weapon by lines). Following his arrest, the man suffered two cardiac arrests, according to the same source. Almost thirty years old, he had since been hospitalized in a coma before his death.
Two investigations were opened: one entrusted to the IGPN on the intervention of the police and their use of the taser and the second on the violence and death threats against civil servants. The latter was entrusted to the Territorial Security of Seine-Saint-Denis.