a man dies after receiving around ten shocks from an electric pulse gun during his arrest

He was hospitalized in a coma following his arrest on Thursday evening in Montfermeil.

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A police officer carries an electric pulse gun on his belt, in Marseille, June 12, 2020. (CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU / AFP)

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), the courts said.

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 on the intervention of the police and their use of their pistols and the second on the violence and death threats against civil servants. The latter was entrusted to the territorial security of Seine-Saint-Denis.


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