French police probed above delivery driver death
A good delivery driver in Paris who died after a site visitors stay in January was heard shouting "I'm suffocating" in footage found by French media.
Cédric Chouviat, a 42-year-old father-of-five, reportedly said he couldn't breathe seven occasions in 22 mere seconds as the officers seemed to pin him down.
Four police officers have now been questioned over his loss of life in January.
He died in hospital two days after the arrest. A coroner soon after ruled he'd died of asphyxia and a shattered larynx.
The officers have previously said they stopped Mr Chouviat for looking at his mobile while riding his scooter, and for having a filthy licence plate, French newspaper Le Monde reported.
Investigators will at this time decide whether the four officers should be charged over the death.
None of the police officers mixed up in case have already been suspended. Their lawyer Thibault de Montbrial possesses declined to touch upon the latest reports, AFP news organization reported.
According to witnesses, who've spoken to French newspaper Le Monde, the authorities officers held Mr Chouviat in a chokehold - a controversial and potentially deadly sort of restraint that's outlawed in many countries.
Mr Chouviat was a father of five. His family has accused the police of using "unsafe" restraint methods, and that the violence against him was unjustified.
This month, mass protests against police brutality have already been held everywhere, following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis on 25 Might. In a parallel with Mr Chouviat's pleas for help, Mr Floyd was likewise heard saying "I cannot breathe" as a officer knelt on his neck.
In France, young Dark and Arab men say they are disproportionately the victims of police brutality.
Pursuing protests, the French govt announced previous this month that it had been banning the potentially deadly chokehold technique.
Nevertheless, they reversed this decision only a few days later after a backlash from police unions, who held demonstrations across the country.
