The march, which brought together around 2,700 people according to the gendarmes, calmly retraced the last journey of this young black man of 24 years, who died in the commune of Persan on July 19, 2016, shortly after his arrest, after 'a chase with the gendarmes.
After a short prayer in front of the Persian gendarmerie where Adama Traoré died despite an intervention by the firefighters, deemed too late by the family, the march stretched to the neighboring town of Beaumont-sur-Oise where he lived.
Unprecedented, this tribute is for the first time organized by both the Adama Committee and Alternatiba, one of the main organizations of the climate movement, in the name of a common fight against inequalities.