The police check went off the rails. A 17-year-old boy was seriously burned in the face and on the upper body during a police intervention in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime). Last Sunday around 7 a.m., three municipal police officers decided to check a car that had just committed multiple offenses in the nightclub district of Le Havre. Five people were on board.
About ten men would then have appeared to support the occupants of the controlled car. This is where a police officer was allegedly hit with a belt buckle in the face by the victim and the intervention degenerated, reports France Bleu. “He intentionally uses the side where there is the loop”, confided Bruno Dieudonné, the public prosecutor of Le Havre, to actu.fr.
Second degree burns
According to the first elements of the investigation, two of the police officers would then have drawn an electric pulse pistol and a tear gas canister. The weapons were activated simultaneously, causing flames to burn on the victim’s body. The teenager’s clothes caught fire and he suffered second degree burns but his life is not in danger. He was hospitalized at the Rouen University Hospital.
The police officer injured with a belt has meanwhile benefited from four days of temporary interruption of work (ITT). An investigation was entrusted to the police officers of the Urban Security of Le Havre.