The French police arrested Bader Idrissi last Wednesday afternoon after intercepting Taser with a pistol in the Pausu district of Urruña (Lapurdi). He died three days later in the hospital in Baiona, where the woman who allegedly attacked her died of a heart attack. Family members of the young man have attributed to the police action the death of Idrissi, in statements to Euskal Irratiak; the Baiona prosecutor, Samuel Vuelta, has initiated an investigation and has decided not to make statements until the results of the autopsy of the corpse are in his hands. On Friday, a silent march will take place at 15:00 hours from the Pausu district to the Hendaia police station to report the death of the young woman.

Some have made several contradictory versions of what happened last Wednesday. The autopsy of the young woman's body and the investigation of the Baiona prosecutor will be responsible for clarifying the facts. According to the testimonies collected by Euskal Irratiak, Idrissi overflowed “with strange positions” in accommodations, pharmacies and shops in the Pausu neighbourhood of Urruña. Neighbours told the radio that he was deluding, that they had not seen him ‘well’. The Chief of Post, BEÑAT Elizondo, has stated that Xaia went through the inn and that, later, he entered a house. “I was out of it. That they were persecuting, that people had by their side, especially that they were asking for help,” he said. He explains that in the neighborhood he has heard different versions.

Koman to the hospital

Police moved to the site after entering a neighborhood home and tried to stop him, although, according to Idrissi's stepfather, they were unable to stop him. The stepfather explained that they were Taser electric pistols, which caused a cardiorespiratory arrest in the family home. As he told Euskal Irratiak, he was called to the police station in San Juan de Luz, where they explained to him that “it was impossible” to stop it. “They told me that I was running around and they gave him two hits with the power bar.” The young man died three days later in the hospital in Baiona, where he was admitted by the police.

Idrissi's stepfather has questioned the police and relief services, believing that they were not confident enough in the operation, so he was taken in a coma to the hospital. “For me, the taser stroke caused the heart to stop, and they couldn’t resuscitate it, because after fifteen minutes oxygen was no longer getting back into the brain.”

According to sources at the Baiona hospital, the young man had problems with the drug and had to be treated "on more than one occasion" before being treated.

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