The investigation is progressing Guadeloupe After the death on Sunday at Le Moule of a man armed with a knife. The gendarme who dedicated the deadly taking pictures was indicted “for deadly violence by an individual holding public authority,” Pointe-à-Pitre public prosecutor Caroline Calbo mentioned on Tuesday.
The suspect now banned from “carrying a weapon”
After an extension of police custody, the perpetrator of the taking pictures was “referred to courtroom” within the afternoon and positioned beneath judicial supervision with particularly “the ban on carrying a weapon”, specified the prosecution.
Sunday, on the very starting of the night, a patrol of three gendarmes noticed in a road within the city of Moule a person armed with a knife who “refused to let go of his weapon”, recalled the prosecutor. The police used an “electrical pulse gun” earlier than utilizing a firearm.
The sufferer already hospitalized in a psychiatric atmosphere
The sufferer, who died on the spot, was 65 years previous. The person “had already been hospitalized in a psychiatric facility a number of occasions based on his family members and had two histories of rebel towards the gendarmes”, armed.
Within the archipelago, the affair sparked controversy. A collective combating towards police violence denounced “as soon as once more, a confrontation with those that characterize the French colonial state (…) leading to a disproportionate use” of firearms, and requested to shed “mild (…) on the situations of this dying” which he describes as “homicide”.
“The investigation continues throughout the framework of the investigation,” declared the prosecution, which added that an post-mortem of the sufferer’s physique had been carried out on Tuesday afternoon.
