The victim died by asphyxiation in his sobering-up cell. A peacekeeper and a security assistant at the Roanne (Loire) police station were charged with "involuntary homicide" after the suicide of a man who was in a sobering-up cell in July, it was said. learned Thursday from a judicial source.
At the end of their hearing in police custody by the General Inspectorate of the National Police, the head of station, in service at the police station at the time of the events, and his assistant, were charged on February 14 by a judge of the Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône) judicial tribunal, where the file was disoriented, said the prosecutor Sylvain Cordesse, confirming information from the daily Le Progrès.
Released
The two men released are under investigation for "manslaughter by clumsiness, recklessness, inattention, negligence or breach of an obligation of care imposed by law or regulation (in this case by lack of supervision of a detained person in the security room), "said the magistrate.
On July 31, 2019, a 29-year-old resident of Roanne was arrested in a state of manifest public intoxication and placed in a sobering-up cell for nighttime noise. He had killed himself by suffocation a few hours later in his sobering-up cell, by making a noose with his pants, had then indicated the parquet floor of Roanne.
In late October, the latter had divested in favor of that of Villefranche-sur-Saône, which had opened a judicial investigation.
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