Marseille: judicial information after the death of Bastiais Saïd M’Hadi during a ticket control
A judicial investigation has been opened, following the death of a 37-year-old man, mentally handicapped, during a ticket control on September 22 in the metro in Marseille, we informed this Monday to the prosecution.
Me Fabrice Giletta, lawyer for the family of Saïd M’Hadi, the victim, welcomed this decision “which will allow his relatives to become a civil party and have access to the file, and in particular to the images from the cameras of surveillance “who undoubtedly filmed the scene at Joliette station.
“Saïd died for a metro ticket,” denounced Khadija M’Hadi, his older sister, describing her brother as someone “gentle and peaceful”.
Mentally retarded and 80% disabled as such, Saïd M’Hadi has lived with his mother in Marseille since the first confinement. Originally from Bastia, he arrived on the continent in order to benefit from more appropriate care.
The judicial information was opened for “willful violence having received death without intention of giving it”, that is to say the same counts of accusation as those of the investigation announced by the prosecutor of Marseilles, on September 23.
According to this first press release from the prosecution, Saïd M’Hadi, described as “agitated, virulent and violent”, would have “tried to escape the control” of the agents of the RTM, the Régie des transports métropolitains, which would then “have brought to the ground “the man of 1m82 for some 100 kg, to control it.
Called in for reinforcement, the police found that the man was “inert” while they tried to handcuff him, had specified Dominique Laurens, the prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille: taken in charge by the firefighters, Saïd M’Hadi was died “despite a long attempt at resuscitation”, victim of “an asphyxia syndrome of unknown mechanism at the time of the autopsy”.
In total, eleven agents of the RTM were present on the spot during the tragedy, specified Me Philippe Duteil, lawyer of the RTM, of which “three to five” physically sought to know the victim. “They were all heard from Wednesday evening, as free witnesses, there was no custody,” he insisted.
Refusing to comment on this file, the RTM only clarified on Monday that it “makes all its resources available to investigators”.
“This judicial information is good news”, agreed for his part Khadija M’Hadi: “But what is hard today is that we cannot even bury him, because the body of Saïd does not belongs more “, the time of the autopsy and the investigation.