A peacekeeper and a security assistant from the Roanne (Loire) police station are sent back to correctional facilities on June 21 following the suicide of a man in a sobering-up cell in July 2019, AFP learned on Thursday, November 25. from judicial sources.
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Aged 43 and 25, the two men, a postmaster and his deputy at the time of the tragedy, were summoned to the Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône) court to respond to charges of "
manslaughter by default surveillance of a person held in a security chamber
, ”the city's public prosecutor's office told AFP.
On July 31, 2019, a 29-year-old resident of Roanne was arrested in a state of manifest public intoxication and placed in a drunken cell for nighttime noise.
The young man had killed himself there by asphyxiation a few hours later, making a sliding knot with his pants.
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In February 2020, after their hearing in custody by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the two police officers were indicted by an investigating judge of the Villefranche-sur-Saône court. , where the file had been disoriented after the relinquishment of the Roanne prosecutor's office.