The man who questions the action of the police is still in the hospital. The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) will now have to shed light on this affair which begins with a desperate gesture. It was seized after the use by a police officer of an electric pulse pistol which caused serious burns on a 60-year-old man, targeted by a judicial seizure last Friday in Saint-Contest, in the outskirts of Caen, a we learned from the prosecution on Wednesday.
Upon the arrival of a bailiff accompanied by police for a seizure, the individual had sprayed himself with gasoline and threatened to set it on fire with a lighter. France 3 ensures that the purpose of this visit was to seize his vehicle and that the man, who had turned back the bailiff during a previous visit, would have poured no less than 10 liters of gasoline on the body. One of the police, according to witnesses, used an electric pulse pistol, apparently with the intention of stopping the man in his project, and it caught fire. Seriously burned, he has since been hospitalized at the hospital for major burns in Percy, in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine), according to the Actu site, which reports that the prognosis of the sixty-year-old was then engaged.
A conflagration triggered by the taser
“It appears that, with the intention of preventing a fatal act, the action of the police services may have contributed, unfortunately, to the dramatic result which followed. Indeed, the use of the taser in an atmosphere impregnated with hydrocarbon could trigger the conflagration ”, develops the press release.
"It has not been established, at this stage, that a criminal offense has been committed, and an administrative investigation will necessarily have to be conducted," continued the press release, from the prosecutor of Caen, Amélie Cladière. “In the meantime, I decided to enter the IGPN. The procedure in search of the causes of injuries will therefore be transmitted to the prosecution and the investigation will continue in a second step under the qualification of unintentional injuries, ”concludes the prosecutor.