Overview
- The family's lawyer, Yassine Bouzrou, said he filed a complaint for intentional violence causing death.
- He argues the Paris prosecutor showed partiality by not referring the case to an investigating judge and by adopting only the police account.
- The complaint cites a nighttime video showing an officer striking a man pinned to the ground and witness claims of a pool of blood, footage amplified on social media.
- The prosecutor’s account says police stopped El Hacen Diarra for rolling a cannabis joint, used a taser in contact mode during resistance, noted an eyebrow wound, and later recorded his death at 00:20 after a collapse at the station.
- The IGPN has opened an inquiry to determine the causes of death and an autopsy is expected, while a neighborhood tribute is planned Sunday at 2 p.m. near the arrest site.