The facts go back to October. A preliminary investigation for “violence by a person holding public authority” was opened after the violent arrest of a man suffering from autism, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced Tuesday, January 4, confirming information from Release (subscribers article). This investigation was opened on November 18 and entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), said this source.
According to the daily, the back and forth of a young man with autism, Eliott *, 29, in a private passage in the east of Paris, where his neighbors used to cross him, questioned a person present on site. Eliott bangs his head with his hands, seems to want to enter a building without having the code.
This witness called the police, without being clear, according to Release, whether she describes it to the police as threatening or not. According to the newspaper, when the police arrive, they immobilize Eliott after using an electric pulse pistol (PIE), a defense bullet launcher (LBD) and a ventral tackle.
Several witnesses cited by Release say your “tried to intervene” and of “reason with the police from the windows”, ensuring that the use of force by the police was disproportionate on this person widely known as non-threatening.
Elliot’s family lawyer Cosima Ouhioun confirmed the facts as presented by Release and explained to AFP that she wanted “let all light be shed on these facts”. According to her, “this case also raises the question of the training of police officers in the face of the handicaps of the people with whom they intervene”.
* The first name has been changed