The expert report submitted as part of the investigation into the death of Zineb Redouane at the end of 2018 in Marseille, concludes that the shooting of the tear gas canister was carried out correctly and reached it accidentally, according to lawyers for the family.
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The octogenarian died on December 2, 2018 in the hospital, 24 hours after being hit head-on by a tear gas grenade fired by the police, while she was closing a window of her apartment in the city center, where demonstrations were taking place. “This report says two things. The first is that given the distance and the obstacles in the gunner's field of vision, there is nothing to confirm that he could see the victim, " said Brice Grazzini, lawyer for the son , on Thursday of the victim Sami Redouane, confirming information from the World.
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"The second is that the weapon was used according to the prescriptions of the national police , " added the council. "But don't we commit a gross imprudence from the moment we shoot towards an inhabited building?" Expertise does not address this aspect at all, ” underlines Me Grazzini, for whom the question of the civil servant's responsibility therefore remains unresolved. The expert report, quoted by Le Monde , indicates that the CRS behind the grenade fire, identified by video surveillance, "necessarily fired in the direction of the facade of the victim's building" but that the grenade "hit the victim completely accidentally".
Me Yassine Bouzrou, lawyer for Milfet Redouane, the daughter of the victim, judges these conclusions "totally scandalous". "We have a shot made at 37 meters distance, with a trajectory from bottom to top, and the expert manages to maintain that it is done according to the rules!" , he denounces. "We are dealing with a tense shot, not a" bell ", carried out by a police officer who cannot ignore that there may be residents in the building" , continues the council, vilifying a "pseudo-expert" - a police officer registered with the Court of Cassation, assisted by a forensic scientist - from whom he intends to request "the radiation" .
"We hope that the Lyon judges will not take this expertise into account and that they will ask for another," concludes Me Bouzrou. This judicial file, first investigated in Marseille, had been disoriented in Lyon in the summer of 2019. December 1, 2018 took place in Marseille as elsewhere act 3 of the movement of "yellow vests", but also a march against the substandard housing after the death of eight people in the collapse of two unsanitary buildings a month earlier.
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