Five agents from a special unit of the French National Police were arrested this Tuesday for their alleged participation in the death of a man in July on the sidelines of the wave of riots last June and July.
Mohamed Bendriss, 27, was found unconscious on the night of July 1 next to his moped on a street in Marseille (southeast) and his death was certified shortly after at a hospital, where the mark of a strong impact was found. in the thorax.
The subsequent autopsy pointed to death from cardiac arrest caused by a “violent blow” to the thorax, whose mark corresponded to a non-perforating spherical object, compatible with a rubber ball.
Just half an hour before he was found unconscious, Bendriss had recorded a video on his phone with a group of policemen reducing a suspected looter during the riots.
The RAID special group intervened that night of July 1 in the center of Marseille.
After a series of investigations, the prosecutor’s office summoned about twenty agents from that unit for today, some as witnesses, and five of them were detained, according to a statement.
Another police officer is under arrest, and one more under house arrest, for the event in which a 22-year-old young man was hit in the head with a rubber ball and beaten by a group of police officers, which occurred on July also in Marseille.
Doctors had to remove half of his skull to save his life, and his image with his deformed head in statements to the press has caused an impression throughout the country, even more so since images from several security cameras showed that he was attacked by agents without participating in the riots.
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