A former police officer sentenced to two years in prison.

A former gendarme implicated in the death of Loïc Louise, a student who died after a Taser shot at the end of 2013 in La Ferté-Saint-Aubin (Loiret), was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday, November 26, it was learned . Agence France-Presse (AFP) of the prosecutor’s office. This former gendarme was tried for “manslaughter” for using his stun gun on the night of November 2 to 3, 2013 to separate two cousins ​​who were fighting in the street after spending the evening with friends.

“The court recognized the causal link between the use of the Taser and the death of the victim”Emmanuel Delorme, deputy prosecutor of Orleans, told Agence France-Presse. During the hearing on 1^Ahem In October he had requested a one-year suspended sentence for the former gendarme, who is now 36 years old, but the court went further. The autopsy of the 21-year-old victim revealed a “massive phenomenon of alcoholism” and the presence of cannabis in your body.

This decision is “a great relief” For the lawyer of Loïc Louise’s family, Fabrice Saubert, who reacted to France Bleu Orléans: “I spoke on the phone with Loïc’s father, I felt like I was breathing again, after eleven years”while the conviction was described as“incomprehensible” according to the former official’s lawyer, Laurent-Franck Liénard, contacted by AFP. “We have three experts who tell us and have affirmed that there was no relationship between the Taser shot and the death” by Loïc Louise, “but the court says there was a link”. METRO^my Liénard said his client had already appealed his conviction.