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| Justice will not prosecute police in case of fatal arrest |
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| Wednesday, 26 September 2012 08:57 | |||
 On June 7, 2012, the man S.G.A.Q. died after a car chase and his detention. The Public Prosecutor’s office confiscated the body for an investigation and had the hospital’s pathologist do an autopsy to determine the cause of death, the prosecutor announced Tuesday in a press release.
With assistance from local experts and the NFI, Netherlands Forensic Institute, it was determined that the cause of death remains inconclusive, but was not caused by the lesions he suffered during the arrest, nor by the results of the toxicological investigation by the NFI.
The public prosecutor therefore asked the NFI pathologist to review the case once again and give an advice. The conclusion was that the strong resistance during the arrest combined with the effects of the drugs which had been found in his body could have caused his death. This is known in literature as “excited delirium syndrome”. The public prosecutor’s office concluded from the investigation by the police corps’ detectives that the police officers involved had not used excessive force during the detention and cannot be kept responsible for his dearth and the public prosecutor’s office thus does not consider the officers involved in a punishable act and will not continue the penal investigation in this case. The victim’s family was informed of this decision by the prosecutor before the issuance of the press release announcing this.
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