Ibrahima Barrie
- Birth Date:
- 00.00.1998
- Death date:
- 09.01.2021
- Length of life:
- 23
- Days since birth:
- 9845
- Years since birth:
- 26
- Days since death:
- 1435
- Years since death:
- 3
- Extra names:
- Barry
- Categories:
- victim
- Nationality:
- belgian
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
On Saturday 9 January around 7:00 PM, Ibrahima fled away from a coronavirus check on the Place du Nord.
According to the Brussels public prosecutor’s office, the police intercepted him and took him to the police station for questioning.
Upon arrival at the station, Ibrahima lost consciousness and the present police officers called the emergency services to take him to the hospital, where he died at 8:22 PM.
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Ibrahima Barrie, the 23-year-old man who died after being taken into custody by police on Saturday evening, died of a heart attack, according to the results of an autopsy revealed by the lawyer for the family.
In addition, Alexis Deswaef said, the post mortem exam had revealed no trace of drugs in the man’s body.
Barrie was outside the North station in Brussels on Saturday when a police patrol arrived to carry out a Covid-19 check on a gathering of people. Barrie fled on foot, but was later arrested and taken to the nearest police station at Place Liedts in Schaerbeek.
There, shortly after arriving, he lost consciousness and was taken by emergency services to hospital, where he dies soon after.
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Wednesday 13.01.2021 about 500 people initially demonstrated peacefully, some commotion broke out around 4:00 and people started throwing stones at the police. Later in the evening, a police station was even set on fire in Schaerbeek.
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King Philippe of Belgium’s car was hit by stones during riots in Brussels last night after the death of a young black man in police custody at the weekend.
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More than 100 people were arrested after a protest in Brussels over the death of a Black man while in police custody turned violent.
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