Police officers back in court over death of Nigerian man

Six Lausanne police officers are back in court accused of causing the death of an arrested Nigerian man. The defendants were acquitted during their original court hearing last year. Do you want to read our weekly top stories? Subscribe here. The Court of Criminal Appeal will sit in the cantonal courtroom of Longemalle in Renens. This highly anticipated appeal trial is once again followed by a significant number of parties, media and the public. Mike Ben Peter, a 39-year-old Nigerian, died in February 2018 following a drug test in Lausanne. In June 2023, after four days of a sensational trial, the Lausanne Criminal Court ruled that the six officers who carried out the test could not be convicted of negligent homicide, following a decision by the Public Prosecutor’s Office. “Multifactorial” causes The judges referred in particular to the forensic expertise, which was not able to state with certainty that Mike Ben Peter had died because of police intervention or the method of ...