The lawyers of one of the three gendarmes implicated in the death of Adama Traoré denounced Tuesday in a press release the " untruths (...) knowingly disseminated for 4 years ", claiming to " restore the facts " in this case erected as a symbol of police violence.
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" For 4 years, the family of Adama Traore has fixed the postulate according to which the gendarmes were responsible " for his death and " the means to succeed in sharing this lie are limitless, even lynching the actors on social networks judicial, whether investigators, judges, experts or even lawyers, ”write Pascal Rouiller and Sandra Chirac Kollarik.
" No ventral plating has ever been made on Adama Traore ", " at no time did the three gendarmes weigh the weight of their bodies ", underline the lawyers. In a first hearing, the team leader said: " The three of us have taken the weight of our bodies " during the handcuffing. Before going back on his statements.
On July 19, 2016, Adama Traoré, a young 24-year-old black man, died on the ground of the Persian gendarmerie (Val-d'Oise), two hours after his arrest in the house of an acquaintance with whom he was staying. was hidden at the end of a chase on a hot day. What happened inside is only known by the depositions of the three gendarmes. Medical examinations have since been carried out to determine the causes of death.
An opinion "obtained under conditions ignored"
Those ordered by justice, a dozen, exonerate the police, attributing the death of Adama Traore to asphyxiation related to his state of health, after an episode of stress and effort. But two reports commissioned by the family dispute their conclusions. " The two medical opinions produced by the civil parties, in an attempt to contest the only independent judicial expert reports, sign the refusal of all incontestable truth ", affirm the lawyers.
They denounce a first opinion " obtained in conditions ignored " and which attributed the fracture of a rib to the arrest of the gendarmes when it would be due to the cardiac massage of the firefighters.
" As for the second opinion, signed by one of those who contributed to the first, one can only wonder about the circumstances of its obtaining and its dissemination ", four days after the revelation of the ultimate legal expertise and shortly before a demonstration of 20,000 people before the Paris court at the appeal of the Adama committee.
" A doctor who is not a specialist in forensic medicine therefore agreed, as a matter of urgency, to speak on such a serious matter, for which the legal experts had worked for many months before rendering detailed and incontestable reports in the scientific field. ... and that in just 72 hours! "Wonder the counsels.
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