Strangulation

The strangulation or throttling is the action to tighten before Cou to compress the arteries carotids and/or the Trachée. It can cause the fainding then the Mort by Asphyxie.

Strangulation can be voluntary (attempt of Suicide, Meurtre, practical erotic) or accidental (compression by the fall of an object, clothing grabbed by a Machine).

Traumatology

The compression of the neck involves according to the exerted pressure level:

  • the compression of the jugular veins, preventing the return of blood since the head towards the heart, from where an edema and a cyanosite visible with the level of the face and language, and a cerebral edema involving a rather slow loss of consciousness followed by a rather late death.

  • the compression of the arteries carotids: these arteries feeding Brain in Blood, this one finds private Oxygen, which involves a cerebral ischaemia which results in turbid of the conscience, then the Mort.
    • a particular case is compression on these arteries of pressure pick-ups (the " glomi") who involves a deceleration extreme and immediate heart until the syncope and the cardiac arrest. It is this phenomenon which involves the accidents related to the " play of the foulard".
  • the compression of the air routes requires a very strong pressure, and the crushing of the trachea is a rare possibility, the latter being protected by rings from cartilage. More frequently, it is the base of the language, pushed back by the external pressure, which comes to block the crossroads of the air and digestive routes. An asphyxiation of the subject follows.

The feelings caused by the Hypoxie are sought by certain people in erotic practices, which can cause accidents fatal.

Throttlings in martial arts

See Throttling in martial arts.

Penal strangulation

Throttling was also for a long time a procedure for the Capital punishment, practiced a little everywhere in the world has different periods.

  • In the East (in particular in China), it was of use to enclose the head of condemned in a Cangue (see the photographs) laid out with horizontal on a scaffolding, so that the feet of the torture victim do not touch the ground (those being sometimes ballasted of a heavy stone weighing up to 100 kg).

  • In Europe, in Antiquity, at the Roman , it was often of use to strangle condemned in their cell using a cord (death of Vercingétorix, for example). Seldom used thereafter, strangulation was however used to shorten the sufferings of the torture victims who had expié their crimes, but had been condemned to heavier sorrows (Bûcher, wheel or quartering, for example): it is the practice known as of the " Retentum " . However, some European countries practiced this procedure according to different techniques, until the middle of the years 1970:

    • In Austria-Hungary and Italy, one used the method known as " Hanging autrichienne". This one consisted in enclosing the neck of condemned to a cord attached to the top of a post so that its feet do not touch the ground. Sometimes, one of the Torturer X which was placed behind him on a scale, held the head to him. While one or two others clung to the feet of the torture victim, thus accelerating its death. This technique was used last once in Italy in 1945, for the execution of militiamans Fasciste S.
    • In Spain and with the Portugal, the use of the " garotte" was frequent. It consisted in sitting condemned on a platform, leant with a bored post of a hole by which one introduced the loop of a cord of Chanvre that one narrowed while turning it using a stick. Thereafter the machine was improved, one replaced the cord by a chain, then by a metal collar, to which was subjugated a threaded screw which crossed the post by a system of toothed rack, thus decreasing the diameter of the collar and determining throttling. This screw was actuated by a large key, then later by a crank. Three or four turns were enough then with the execution. A system of beam with counterweight was assistant there to facilitate the work of the torturer thereafter. In addition, it was also posed on the post a protuberance making it possible to crush at the same time the Cervelet of the torture victim. The garotte was used with the Portugal until in 1867. It was also a legal mode of execution in Bolivia, with Cuba, the Filipino and Puerto Rico until the beginning of the year 1900. The Spain gave up it with the fall of Franco, since the last condemned to Spanish death to undergo this punishment was militant the Anarchiste El Salvador Puig I Antich the March 2nd 1974.

See also the article: Lace throttle valve

Criminal strangulation

Blow of the François father

The blow of the father François , also called flight with throttling or Treacherous blow in , is an old technique of strangulation, being carried out using a Foulard or of a Ceinture. It is practiced generally thus, with two people:

  • an accomplice is addressed to the victim (information, for fire, etc)
  • the attacker advances behind with a belt or a scarf held in its hands
  • It passes to the belt over the head of the victim
  • the attacker swivels on him even by drawing the belt with the two hands on a shoulder, like loading a bag with vegetables on the back (technical sometimes called haulage with mechanics ).

It causes death in a few moments.

Other Circumstances

This method is used by criminals, in particular in the vendettas.

Strangulation at sexual or entertaining ends

See the article Play of the scarf.

See too

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