The Brussels Criminal Court has convicted three police officers in the case of a 23-year-old man that died in a police cell in 2021. One of the officers was convicted of assault and battery, the two others of failing to assist a person in medical need. In January 2021 Ibrahima Barrie died of heart failure at the police station on the Brabantstraat in Sint-Joost-ten-Node.
Three police officers convicted in the case of a 23-year-old man that died in a Brussels police cell
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The officers found guilty of failing to assist Mr Barrie both received a seven-month suspended jail sentences. A third officer was found guilty of beating and wounding the Mr Barrie. He was given a one-month suspended sentence.
23-year-old Ibrahima Barrie was arrested near the Brussels-North railway station in Schaarbeek on 9 January 2021. He was filming a police intervention and attempted to flee when a police patrol wanted to check his identity. He was then taken to the police station on the Brabantstraat in Sint-Joost-ten-Node, where he collapsed in a cell due to heart failure. He was taken to hospital but could no longer be resuscitated.