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Death after a containment control: three police officers from Béziers in custody

2020-12-17T10:05:04.864Z


The arrested man was reportedly carried in the back of the police vehicle on his stomach, handcuffed, with one of the officers seated on his buttocks. When he arrived at the police station, he was unconscious and could not be revived.


Three municipal police officers from Béziers (Hérault) were taken into police custody Thursday, December 17, as part of an investigation opened after the death on April 8, of a thirty-something arrested for a control of the confinement, said the prosecution of Beziers.

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Municipal police officers were summoned for a hearing at the premises of the judicial police in Montpellier on Thursday morning.

Their custody follows the opening of a judicial investigation in April for "

willful violence resulting in death without intention of giving it by a person holding public authority and non-assistance to anyone in danger

", specified the public prosecutor, Raphaël Balland, in a press release.

The deceased man was schizophrenic according to his lawyer, and could be "

very agitated when he was not taking his treatment

".

Sentenced eight times since 2005 for violence and theft, this man with a course characterized by great instability had according to the three municipal police officers “

refused their control

” and “

resisted

” the arrest.

According to their statements, he was transported to the national police station in Béziers in the back of a vehicle on his stomach, handcuffed, with one of the municipal police officers sitting on his buttocks "

in order to keep him

".

When they arrived in the courtyard of the police station, “

the individual arrested was unconscious

” and could not be revived.

According to the autopsy ordered by the Béziers prosecutor's office, the man had undergone "

a support maintained with a certain force in the cervical region, probably with a knee or an elbow, which seems to have certainly participated in the death by causing an asphyxia syndrome

".

A toxicological analysis had, however, also revealed "

a context of acute intoxication following a massive intake of cocaine

", according to the prosecutor's office in Béziers.

Source: lefigaro

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