The demonstration had been banned by Didier Lallement, a few hours before the event. But despite the order made by the Paris prefect of police, thousands of people gathered today before the Grande Instance court at Porte de Clichy. The demonstrators responded to the committee's call "Truth for Adama", a young man who died after his arrest by the gendarmes in 2016.
During the rally, Assa Traoré, the young man's sister and at the initiative of the rally, denounced a “denial of justice” in this case which, for his defenders, has become a symbol of police violence. The family opposes, to that ordered by the justice and which have cleared the gendarmes arresters, an expertise which validates the asphyxiation by ventral plating of Adama Traoré. The young man would have died, according to the last analyzed, under the weight of the three gendarmes who carried out his arrest.
During the dispersal of the rally, incidents broke out. Street furniture was burnt under the bridge around the Porte de Clichy ring road. The death of George Floyd was on everyone's mind: “Today, it is no longer just the fight of the Traoré family, it is your fight with all of you […]. Today, when we fight for Georges Floyd, we fight for Adama Traoré ”, launched Assa Traoré to the 20,000 demonstrators present.
