During the night of Saturday, July 26 to Sunday, July 27, a man died while he was in police custody at the Metz police station. An investigation was opened to determine the causes of this death.
On the night of Saturday to Sunday July 27, a man in his thirties died when he was placed in police custody at the Metz police station. An investigation in searching the causes of death has been opened.
In police custody for theft with violence
The man was at the police station for thefts of theft with violence, said on Wednesday in l’Afp The Metz prosecutor’s office. This confirms information from the newspaper The Lorraine Republican Who reported that the man was suspected of having stolen the handbag of a woman, near a supermarket and having attacked him physically suddenly in the face.
The man, born in 1988, died on the night of Saturday 26 to Sunday 27 July at the Metz police station. According to the prosecution, the medical examiner dismissed “Any malicious gesture of a third party”.
The track of a drug overdose
According to our colleagues from Republican Lorrainethe “Track of a drug overdose would have been mentioned”. Here Lorraine confirms that according to a police source, “Man suffered from drug addiction”.
