Overview
- Paris prosecutors opened a judicial investigation for voluntary violence causing death by a public official and assigned the IGPN, placing a judge in charge of the case.
- The family and their lawyer demand the immediate custody of the involved officers and their suspension, citing a neighbor’s video showing punches and audio they say captures the words “You’re strangling me.”
- Autopsy findings noted a deep temporal wound and a fracture of the thyroid cartilage horn, which the family links to strangulation, while prosecutors say causality is unproven pending toxicology and anatomopathology results due in weeks.
- Investigators report no body‑camera footage due to depleted batteries and no public CCTV of the arrest or transport; station cameras show the detainee appearing exhausted before collapsing as officers attempt to assist, and a witness appeal is underway.
- Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said there is no reason to suspend the officers during the process, as civil‑society groups press for suspensions and a weekend homage drew several hundred to about a thousand people.