Rare fact, civil servants were found guilty of manslaughter by the Paris Criminal Court. They were sentenced to fifteen months suspended prison sentence.
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Seven years after the death of Amadou Koumé, 34, during an arrest in a bar of 10 e Parisian arrondissement, three police officers were sentenced, Tuesday, September 20, to fifteen month in prison suspended by justice, for “manslaughter”, a heavier sanction than the twelve months required by the public prosecutor during their trial, in July.
“Such a condemnation of police officers constitutes an extremely rare decision and, from this point of view, a real advance, believes M e Eddy Arneton, lawyer for the victim’s family. But we do not may be amazed at the sentence pronounced: suspended for the death of a man handcuffed his hands in the back, the ankles hampered. “
The facts took place on the night of March 5 to 6, 2015. That evening, Amadou Koumé, 1.91 meters for 105 kg, agitated in a bar located near the Gare du Nord. Originally from Saint-Quentin (North), the colossus has already known the prison, suffers from psychiatric history: “monsters” want him, “unknown” seek to kill him. Installed on a bench seat, his massive body oscillates under the worried looks of customers and staff, which he accuses of being “accomplices”.
Difficulties in mastering Amadou Koumé
A call to 17, the police -residential police number, leads to the intervention of the police – in total, no less than sixteen police officers present at one time or another, near the arrest scene – But the first crew arrived on the scene fails to master Amadou Koumé, probably in the grip of an episode of paranoia crisis, who thinks he is dealing with “false police officers”.
A new crew, from Bac n (anti -crime brigade, night service) then moved to the aid of the first. The two video surveillance cameras of the establishment, whose bands were viewed during the investigation, show that a first strangulation key carried out by a police officer – a constraint technique prohibited since 2021 – allows to bring the Young man on the ground.
As he continues to resist, he returned to be handcuffed in the back and then undergoes a second strangulation key, for two minutes, while another policeman keeps him on the ground by pressing his knee In the lumbar region for a minute and nineteen seconds. At that time, in addition to the handcuffs, tightening necklaces also imprison the ankles of Amadou Koumé. Some witnesses, among the clients and the staff of the bar, will state its “cries of agony” and “suffocation”.
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