Taser distributor in France tries to muzzle elected official

Two bailiffs presented Monday to the mayor of the French city of Lille a summons from the company SMP Technologies, the exclusive distributor in France of the X26 taser. Asked last Sunday on Canal, whether she would equip municipal police officers in her city with the X23 the Mayor [Martine Aubry WIKI] responded, "It's dangerous there have already been 290 deaths in North America".

Antoine Di Zappo [or something like that], owner of PMS Technologies [or something like that], said he was shocked [but not killed] by the statements of Martine Aubry he has since tried in vain to call her. He therefore decided to send a summons giving her 48 hours to "prove the facts of the 290 victims of which she spoke." "When we assume the highest responsibilities, we must therefore speak responsibly with out outlandish accusations." he says. If she does not give the names, we will sue for derogatory slander of our product. SMP Technologies has already a defamation suit against Olivier Besancenot who also spoke of Taser deaths. [LINK]

The names, 378+ now, are listed on the Truth ... Not Tasers blog [LINK].

For legal reasons, we tend to refer to these deaths as being "taser-associated" or "taser-related". Taser often calls them "taser-proximal".

Common sense indicates a connection, but the direct taser-shock-to-death causality has only been clearly legally established in a few cases. This is a result of the 'Proof Issue' wherein the weapon leaves no internal postmortem evidence.

But to be clear, Taser has been hit with a $6.2M judgment for 'Failure to Warn' in relation to the death of someone that was tasered and died. Also, some brave coroners are pointing directly at the taser as the cause of death (Pikes case).

Keep in mind that it only takes ONE example to prove Taser wrong in their claims of safety.

Just one.

Most reasonable observers would agree that we're now beyond that point. [LINK][LINK]

Which leaves only one possible conclusion...