A Badalona court investigates the death of a young man the day after the Mossos reduced him with a taser pistol

The Badalona Investigative Court 2 has opened proceedings for the death of man which was reduced with a taser pistol last Friday in Badalona (Barcelonès). The young man ended up dying in hospital the next day. The magistrate opened proceedings last Sunday, once she received the hospital’s communication of the young man’s death.

So far, you have asked reports to the Mossos d’Esquadra, pending the full autopsy report. So, at this moment, there is no no person as investigated in the cause. The events occurred on November 26 at noon, when a family notified the Mossos that their son was threatening them “with knives.” The agents accessed the family’s home through a neighbor’s house, since the son had allegedly blocked the entrances.

For his part, Ombudsman too has opened an ex officio action for the death of man. Specifically, it has addressed the General Directorate of the Police to request a copy of the investigation that has been carried out and the conclusions that emerge, among other information. He explained that he has already obtained specific information from those responsible for the Department of the Interior.

The Catalan Ombudsman recalled that in November 2020 he already opened an ex officio action for the use of a taser in Sabadell. He concluded that the use of the electric gun was in accordance with the protocol but that the shock was neither adequate nor weighted, with six shocks in a row. For its part, Irídia association He also demanded an investigation into the death of the man from the Interior and asked the Department to review its use protocols.

Controversial performance

The program Badalona Matí, by Ràdio Ciutat Badalona, has contacted this Thursday with Jonathan Perez, the brother-in-law of the victim, who has explained that the family of the deceased man will file a complaint for the police action and that the matter is already “in the hands of lawyers.” Speaking to local radio, he asserted that the deceased “It was already calming down & rdquor; when the Mossos d’Esquadra arrived and that, although her mother-in-law told the agents, “they entered through the neighbor’s house & rdquor ;. “They threw him to the ground, they threw themselves 4 on top of him. One of the officers had his knees on his neck & rdquor ;, said Pérez.

Sources of Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital in Badalona (Can Ruti), where the man entered after being reduced by the Mossos d’Esquadra, explain that the man entered the center after the Medical Emergency System (SEM) “revived him on November 26 & rdquor; and that his death was certified on the 27th. This newspaper has contacted SEM to find out the details of the intervention, but they refer to the information provided by Mossos.

This morning, the director of the Mossos d’Esquadra, Pere Ferrer, has asserted that the protocol for the use of tasers in the reduction of a man in Badalona was correctly complied with and has also defended that there was a SEM unit as indicated in the protocol, and that the transfer to the hospital was carried out as indicated. For his part, the mayor of Badalona, Ruben Guijarro, has also defended that the use of an electric taser pistol by the Mossos d’Esquadra to reduce a man “is in line with protocol.”

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Taser guns are allowed in Catalonia to help in complex reductions of a person in case there is risk for the agents, the affected people or third parties, and have built-in recording systems.

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