Marseille, Death Of A French Protestor by Police’s Non-Lethal Weapon.
According to Reuters, the prosecutor’s office in Marseille announced that it has opened an investigation into the incident after a 27-year-old man was killed during recent protests in France due to a “projectile” similar to a police “flash ball” bullet.
Following the killing of a 17-year-old Algerian youth by the French police after disobeying the order to stop, the wave of protests started in Paris and soon spread to large and small French cities and became violent.
During these widespread protests, during which French President Emmanuel Macron claimed, his days of rebellion are over, more than 3,000 people have been arrested, mostly minors, and the average age of those arrested is reported to be 17 years.
Now, after more than a week has passed since the beginning of mass protests in France, the prosecutor’s office of Marseille, referring to the death of a 27-year-old man amid the protests, has announced that the most likely cause of this citizen’s death was the impact of the projectile of the “Flashball” weapon that the anti-riot police uses it, has been However, the authorities have not determined exactly who fired the shot or who owned the gun.
According to the prosecutors, the impact of this projectile, which can be of different types, caused a heart attack and the sudden death of this young protester.
Also, according to the autopsy, the victim was killed on the night of July 1 or 2, at the same time as the height of the unrest in Marseille.
The peak of the clashes on Saturday this week was in Marseille, and the police in this city used tear gas and entered into a street war with young people in the city center until late at night.
The “Flashball” weapon is designed to suppress riots and is a type of “non-lethal” weapon that does not penetrate the skin, but the use of these weapons by the French police has caused controversy because the bullets of this weapon cause loss of vision, damage to the skull and other injuries. It has led to protesters.
