A police officer used a gun to electrical pulse on a man doused in petrol, threatening to immolate himself. The man ignited after the shooting.
the general inspectorate of the national police (IGPN) has been seized after the use by police of a gun in electrical impulse. Its use has resulted in serious burns to a person during a judicial seizure near Caen last Friday.
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the arrival of a bailiff, accompanied by police officers with a view to the seizure, a man was doused in gasoline and threatened to set it on fire with a lighter to Saint-Contest, in the outskirts of Caen, according to local media. One of the police officers, according to witnesses, used a gun to electric impulse, apparently with the intention of stopping the man in his project, and the man was ignited. Badly burned, he has since been hospitalized.
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Investigation for “involuntary injury”
“It appears that, in the intention to prevent a fatal act, the action of the police has been able to contribute, unfortunately, the result of drama that followed. In fact, the use of the taser in an atmosphere impregnated with the hydrocarbon has been able to trigger the kindling”, develops the statement of the prosecutor.
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“It is not prepared, at this stage, that a criminal offence has been committed, and an administrative investigation will necessarily have to be driving,” continues the press release, the prosecutor of Caen, Amélie Cladière.
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“In the waiting, I decided to take the IGPN. The procedure in search of the causes of injury will be transmitted to the prosecutor and the investigation will continue in a second time under the qualification of “involuntary injury”, concluded the prosecutor.
