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arrested for drinking and driving, a man hangs himself with a shoelace at the police station

A 28-year-old man, arrested while intoxicated at the wheel in Poitiers (Vienne), was found dead, hanged with the lace of his shoe on the night of Monday to Tuesday, while he was in a bathroom. waiting for the police station.

An investigation was entrusted to the judicial police for “research of the causes of the death of the young man in these premises of the police station, specified the prosecutor of Poitiers. An autopsy is planned Wednesday.

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Arrested Monday evening around 10 p.m. for driving in an alcoholic state, the man visibly feared the removal of his driver’s license. He had a level of 0.86 grams per liter of blood.

“Calm” on arrival at the police station

When he arrived at the police station, according to several police sources, he was “calm” and showed no sign of “agitation or great sadness”. He had been installed in the waiting room of the police station before his transfer to the Poitiers University Hospital, to undergo the medical examination and the routine blood samples.

“He dozed off and disappeared from the field of the camera. He took advantage of the presence of a grid (high) in this room to tie his shoelace and commit the irreparable. Colleagues discovered him dead when they came to pick him up around 3 am. They obviously blame it “, told a police officer to France Bleu Poitou.

The officials in post at the time of the facts were to be heard by the Poitiers judicial police.

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