The death of the black youth Adama Traoré has been causing protests in France's capital Paris since 2016 - again now.
- Adama Traoré died in Paris in 2016 as part of a police check .
- There are many parallels to the case of George Floyd in the United States.
- There are violent protests and riots in France .
Paris - Did Adama Traoré die because police officers cut his air? This question has been moving France since the summer of 2016. A patrol controlled two brothers in Beaumont-sur-Oise. One, Adama Traoré, fled but was placed; he withdrew again and was placed in a friend's apartment. Three gendarmes held the person lying on their stomach, although according to the police report he complained that he could no longer breathe. Then the 24-year-old was taken away. He lost consciousness in the police car; the evoked emergency services could only determine death on the guard.
Violent protests and riots immediately arose in the Paris area . Traoré's sister Assa founded a committee called "Truth and Justice for Adama". Among other things, she referred to a rescue worker who had said that the dead man was found in handcuffs on his stomach, not on his side, as the police claimed. Expertise in the justice system concluded that there was an anatomical abnormality in Traoré's heart; A counter-expertise of his family came to the conclusion in March 2019 that the cause of the death was caused by "mechanical suffocation" - that is, by external influences.
Death after police control: "Our George Floyd is Adama Traoré"
The Traoré Committee has remained active since then . Opposition politicians such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon also take part in the regular protests. The left-wing leader said that it was "not going to die in France after being arrested". Rap musicians, athletes and actors denounce the police violence in France and the "ordinary racism" that the Traoré affair revealed.
The support committee also maintains links with the American “Black Lives Matter” movement . After the death of George Floyd *, the Commissioner for Equal Opportunities for French Overseas Territories, Claudy Siar said: “This can also happen in France. Our George Floyd is Adama Traoré. "
Death after police control: French police officers have not been bothered to this day
The judiciary made new expertise public at the end of last week. According to her, Traoré died of a heart problem that could have been exacerbated by the stressful situation. The committee rejects this post-mortem analysis and criticizes that the participating police officers have not been bothered to date. For Tuesday evening, it calls for a solidarity rally for Floyd and Traoré. If the French media treat this appeal very neglectfully, it is no doubt out of fear that the riots from the USA could spread to the French banlieues.
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