Since October 3, Eliott * has not been quite the same. Brutally arrested by the police when he had committed no offense, the 29-year-old autistic youngster “remained very marked and reacted badly when we spoke to him about this affair”, explained to 20 minutes her family’s lawyer, Me Cosima Ouhioun. “The nurses who follow him in the nursing home where he is found have observed psychological repercussions, he had in the days which followed a behavior different from usual”, she adds.
As the story goes Release, the facts occurred in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, when the young man was returning from an outing with his parents in a shared garden located near the family home. Elliot, who had decided to return, gets ahead of them. In the private passage where his neighbors are used to crossing him, he starts to go back and forth, bang his head with his hands, and seems to want to enter a building without having the code. Intrigued, the occupant of an apartment on the ground floor, who did not know him, called the police.
“He was just walking in a private passage”
“According to her testimony, this lady had informed the police that he seemed a little lost. When the officials arrived, she would have warned them that the means deployed seemed manifestly disproportionate to what she had reported to them over the phone, ”continues Me Ouhioun. Indeed, several agents burst into the alley, come forward and shout at Eliott, who does not understand what they are saying. They then shoot him with an LBD (defense bullet launcher) and an electric pulse pistol, before immobilizing him by crushing him and handcuffing him.
The lawyer of her family is surprised by this use of so-called “intermediate forces” weapons. “Clearly, they were drawn way too quickly. He hadn’t committed any offense. He didn’t bother anyone, didn’t try to steal a moped… He just walked through a private passage. The police had nothing to reproach him with that they did not take him into custody. He just went to the hospital, ”she says. Appraisal: broken teeth, a wound to the chin which required stitches and a small surgical intervention to remove the hook of the electric pulse pistol which had lodged in the neck.
Two investigations entrusted to the police
After this case, Eliott’s parents filed a complaint. Contacted by 20 minutes, the Paris prosecutor’s office indicates that a judicial investigation of the head of violence by a person holding public authority was opened on November 18, entrusted to the IGPN, the police. For its part, the Prefecture of Police informed that an administrative investigation was also carried out. For Me Cosima Ouhioun, “this case also raises the question of the training of police officers in the face of the handicaps of the people with whom they intervene”. “Those who intervened had been informed that young Eliott was suffering from disturbances, but they did not know how to react well. “
* The first name has been changed