The man died in the corridors of the metro.
A traveler in his forties died Wednesday evening in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) on the sidelines of a control of his transport ticket, as revealed by La Provence.
Around 7 p.m., a team of six controllers began to check the tickets of travelers leaving a train at Joliette station, a very busy station, located on the seafront in the hypercentre of Marseille.
Among the crowd of travelers trying to reach the surface, a man refuses to hand out his ticket.
Hervé Beccaria, director general of the Régie des transports métropolitains (RTM) confides to the Parisian / Today in France that the man "was very virulent and refused to submit to the control".
"There is no evidence that the officers used disproportionate force."
An episode of violence would then have broken out: "He hit one of our agents".
The man is then "under control" while awaiting the arrival of the police.
We do not know for the moment under what conditions the agents of the RTM gained the upper hand on the victim.
When the police come down to the station, they find the traveler "in an abnormal state".
The firefighters then intervene but fail to resuscitate him.
An investigation has been opened to determine the circumstances of this death, indicates the Marseille prosecutor who explains "wait for the results of the autopsy" before any comment.
The RTM agents were heard by the investigators and the video surveillance recordings of the metro were entrusted to them.
“For the time being,” says Hervé Beccaria, “there is nothing to say that the agents have made a disproportionate use of force.
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