Two police officers were recently indicted in the investigation into the case of the young man who had his hands burned in a police van in Mantes-la-Jolie in 2017, AFP learned Monday (August 3rd) from corroborating sources, bringing the number of officials prosecuted in this case to four.
The four policemen are being prosecuted for “unintentional injuries resulting in total incapacity for work (ITT) for more than three months“, Said the prosecution. The last two indictments took place for one in mid-January and for the other in early March. A fifth police officer remains targeted by the investigation but has not yet been heard.
On November 7, 2017, a 27-year-old man arrested for contempt in the Val Fourré district had his hands handcuffed against a faulty heater inside a police van taking him to the police station, causing serious burns to the second and third degree. The victim has since undergone two skin grafts and has been prescribed total incapacity for work (ITT) for more than three months.
“Not far from being torture”
His lawyer Me Calvin Job assured AFP that he intended to request a requalification of the facts, which according to him can not be reduced to simple “unintentional injuries». «Someone who screams and we don’t hear, it’s not far from torture, “He told AFP. «There are quite a few elements in this file that show that there are things that are not right“, He added, specifying that he no longer considered asking for a reconstitution so as not to slow down the case.
For its part, the police have always claimed to have dealt with a man “very virulent»On the day of the arrest. He would have tried to flee before being arrested and “hoisted with difficulty in the van“While a”hostile gatheringWas formed, according to the first observations of the police.
During the journey, the man would have “kicked in the side door“Then would have been”lying on his back to the ground where he continued to struggle“, Still according to the police. The burns caused by the defective heating of the van would therefore be the result of an accident and not of an intentional act, according to the defense of the police.
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