The 30-year-old man received a dozen electric shock gun shocks from the police on January 5. He died shortly after his arrest by the police in Montfermeil, in Seine-Saint-Denis. This Friday, the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office announced the opening of a judicial investigation into the circumstances of this death.
“The investigations will focus on investigating whether a causal link can be established between the repeated uses of an electric shock gun, the means that were used for the arrest and the death that occurred,” indicated the public prosecutor of Bobigny, Eric Mathais, in a press release.
Six police officers used their electric tasers
“The multiplicity of police officers involved and the behavior of the deceased man make it difficult to establish the exact chronology and determine the legitimacy of the means used,” added the prosecution. In total, 18 officials intervened at several times in a grocery store in Montfermeil shortly after midnight, to arrest this employee in a “state of overexcitement” and “aggressiveness”, according to the same source.
According to the first elements of the investigation, six police officers used their electric pulse pistol. “The man resisted violently, trying to seize the firearm of one of the police officers, to grab a bottle likely to be used as a projectile and to strike the police officers present,” details the prosecution. of Bobigny, based on the reports of the police.
A young man “beaten up” according to witnesses
The thirty-year-old had knocked one of the agents to the ground and “bitten his finger until it bled to the point of causing a fracture”, specifies this same source. Born in Martinique on January 1, 1994, the man had been hospitalized in Paris in a coma since the arrest. The judicial investigation opened Friday against
On Wednesday, the Human Rights League for its part denounced an “excessive” police intervention. Asking that “all light be shed on this new death which seems to be the result of unjustified police violence”, the organization “questions the intervention methods and the disproportionate use of their weapons by certain police officers”. The day after the death, witnesses at the scene assured AFP, without elaborating, that the grocer had never called the police that evening and that the anti-crime brigade patrol had intervened immediately. initiative, contrary to the assertion of a source close to the matter. According to them, the young man was “beaten up”.