The family of Adama Traoré had seized the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal, contesting the dismissal order issued on August 30, 2023 in favor of the three gendarmes who had arrested the young black man of 24 years after a chase. The public prosecutor's office relies on a report, written by four Belgian experts in 2021 and completed in 2022, concluding that the young man's death was caused, on this heatwave day, by a "heat stroke" The decision will be made on May 16.