A gendarme, whose shooting killed a man armed with a knife in Guadeloupe, was indicted “for fatal violence by a person holding public authority,” declared Tuesday, April 14, the public prosecutor of Pointe-à-Pitre, Caroline Calbo.
After an extension of police custody, the perpetrator of the shooting was “referred to court” in the afternoon and placed under judicial supervision with in particular “the ban on carrying a weapon”, specifies the prosecution in a press release.
The events took place on Sunday, at the very beginning of the evening, when a patrol of three gendarmes spotted in a street in the town of Moule (Grande-Terre) a man who was holding a knife and who “refused to let go of his weapon”, recalled the prosecutor. The police used an “electric pulse gun” before using a firearm.
Controversy in the archipelago
The victim, who died on the spot, was 65 years old. The man “had already been hospitalized in a psychiatric facility several times according to his relatives and had two histories of rebellion against the police”, armed, details the press release.
In the archipelago, the affair sparked controversy. A collective fighting against police violence denounced in a press release “once again, a confrontation with those who represent the French colonial state (…) [qui s’est] resulted in a disproportionate use” of firearms, and asked to shed “light (…) on the conditions of this death” which he describes as “murder”.
“The investigation continues as part of the investigation,” said the prosecution, which added that an autopsy of the victim’s body was carried out on Tuesday afternoon.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
