a man dies after receiving around ten electric shock gun shocks during his arrest

A 30-year-old man died on Friday January 5, following his arrest by the police, during the night from Thursday to Friday, announced the Bobigny prosecutor’s office. He received around ten electric shock gun discharges during his arrest by the police in Montfermeil (Seine-Saint-Denis), during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the courts said.

The man died Friday morning at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, where he had been taken following a cardio-respiratory arrest, the Bobigny prosecutor’s office confirmed. An autopsy is to be performed on Monday. At this stage, it is not possible to say that the taser shots were responsible for the death of the thirty-year-old.

Two open investigations

According to the first elements of the investigation, six police officers used their electric pulse pistol. There were 18 officials who intervened after a grocer’s call to the police. The events occurred on Thursday shortly after midnight to arrest this man in “state of overexcitement” And “aggressiveness”. He was then hospitalized in a coma.

Two investigations were opened, one entrusted to the IGPN for “intentional violence by a person holding public authority”, the other entrusted to the territorial security of Seine-Saint-Denis for “voluntary damage, rebellion and violence against a person holding public authority.