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Demonstration for Adama Traoré in Paris: 18 arrests and 12 police custody

2020-06-04T23:52:28.284Z


The demonstration, banned by the prefecture of police, gathered around 20,000 people Tuesday evening around the courthouse, door


Eighteen arrests and 12 police custody, a neighborhood caught "in net", vandalism, dismayed residents, and the mayor of the XVIIth arrondissement, Geoffroy Boulard, who summons Didier Lallement, the police prefect, to explain.

This Wednesday morning, after the demonstration on the forecourt of the courthouse at Porte de Clichy (17th century Paris) which has degenerated, the time has come.

The day before, more than 20,000 people gathered to protest the police violence. This rally, prohibited by the police headquarters a few hours earlier, was organized at the call of "Truth for Adama", the support committee for the family of Adama Traoré, who died in 2016 after his arrest by gendarmes in Persan ( Val d'Oise).

In the background of this event, the revelation of an expertise that validates the young man's asphyxiation by ventral plating. Adama Traoré would have died, according to these latest analyzes, under the weight of the three gendarmes.

In the procession of yesterday, also hung the specter of the death, across the Atlantic, of George Floyd. This black man was killed during his arrest in Minneapolis by a white police officer.

Overflows from 9 p.m.

The Tuesday evening demonstration degenerated around 9 p.m. On the one hand, shots from LBD, tear gas from the police, on the other, projectile jets. Calm returned around 12:30 a.m.

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At 8:30 p.m., the demonstrators blocked the ring road for almost an hour. Then dispersed in groups in the north of Paris but also on the other side of the ring road, in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine).

In the capital, within a kilometer around the avenue de Clichy (17th century), groups erected and burned down a few barricades, site equipment, bikes, scooters, garbage cans and under the ring road, two construction machinery.

"There have indeed been overflows," says Yvan Assioma, head of the Union National Police union for Île-de-France, "at the end of the demonstration, at the time of the call for dispersal. There were projectile jets which started to rain on the colleagues, two slightly injured police officers, six degraded police vehicles ”. Storefronts of a restaurant, two bakeries and a newsstand were damaged by projectiles.

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Several tags "ACAB" (All cops are bastards, in English, ie "all the cops are bastards") and "Justice for Adama" were noted. In the evening, metro stations on line 13 including La Fourche were closed, bus lines diverted, tram traffic between the gates of Saint-Ouen and Asnières (17th century) interrupted.

"Nothing to do with yellow vests"

"This situation is unacceptable, annoys the unionist. This demonstration was prohibited. But all that has nothing to do with the chaotic overflows of the demonstrations of the Yellow Vests in intramural Paris ”, he reframes.

In the end, out of 18 arrests made at night, 13 were made in Paris, which resulted in 12 police custody. 8 of the young people are adults and 4 minors.

These people are "generally suspected of having carried a weapon without legitimate reason, participating in a gathering after summons, committing degradations, aggravated violence or insults on persons responsible for public order", indicates the Paris prosecutor's office .

Source: leparis

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