Posted on May 29 2013 by admin
[[Summary / Comments : The French “Defender of Rights” calls for tighter guidelines on situations in which the taser is used by police, better training and particularly non-targeting of the heart region. Includes statistics of use of tasers in France.]] Par AFP , La rédaction de RTL.fr Le Défenseur des droits a présenté mardi plusieurs […]
Posted on May 28 2013 by admin
[[Summary / Comments : Even if they are considered “non-lethal” tasers – and Flashballs – need to be more tightly controlled. The Defender of Rights for the first time takes a position on these “intermediary” weapons – they can only be used when strictly necessary and proportional; to the situation. The Defender of Rights receives […]
Posted on February 9 2012 by admin
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Whether true or a hoax on the Internet, this report – unsubstantiated so it should not have been broadcast by the CBC, without more research – confirms the trivialization of “tazers” – generic models, generic models in this case, with a clear link to their major sales-location: Thailand. Interested?: See the YouTube […]
Posted on December 18 2010 by admin
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: France, which claims to be a land of human rights, provides a “far from exemplary” record, the ACAT – Christian action for the abolition of torture – report states. The abusive use of the taser and of the flash-ball as well as the detention conditions in prisons are severely criticized. (See paragraph […]
Posted on December 13 2010 by admin
Le résident d’un foyer de travailleurs, victime d’un arrêt cardiaque dimanche à Marseille après avoir reçu un tir de flash-ball d’un policier, est décédé ce lundi. Une autopsie doit avoir lieu «le plus rapidement possible» pour déterminer l’origine exacte de sa mort, a précisé à l’AFP Jean-Jacques Fagni, procureur de la République adjoint de Marseille. […]
Posted on December 13 2010 by admin
LIBÉRATION.FR … La mort d’un quadragénaire après un tir de flash-ball, lundi à Marseille, relance la polémique sur l’usage de cette arme. Ce lundi, un quadragénaire a succombé après avoir reçu, la veille, un tir de flash-ball en plein thorax. Le policier auteur du tir intervenait pour contenir une rixe entre lui et son colocataire, […]
Posted on December 13 2010 by admin
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS : Amnesty International France protests the death of a Marseille man after being hit by a “flashball” in a police intervention in a workers’ hostel. So-called “less-lethal” weapons must be much more tightly controled.]] Amnesty International France: Communiqué de presse Alors qu’un homme vient de décéder après avoir reçu un projectile de “Flash-Ball” […]
Posted on July 3 2010 by admin
Times of India, Praveen Dass … NLWs,however futuristic,will always come with considerable risks attached.Tasers,electro-shock devices that are now a fairly common feature of law enforcement in the West,are one cautionary example.Many suspects have been inadvertently ‘tasered’ into cardiac arrest in several instances in the US and Canada over the last decade. Apart from the politics […]