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Traoré affair: who are the "expert doctors" at the heart of the legal system?

2020-06-11T21:46:10.099Z


Doctors have succeeded each other in the Traoré affair over expert reports, second expert reports and private reports. Who are they? What is the difference between an expert appointed by a judge and another working for the family of a victim?


In the Traoré case, the expert reports follow one another and do not always look the same. Last Tuesday, Le Parisien revealed the existence of a new medical report ordered by the family of Adama Traoré, a young black man of 24 years died in July 2016 two hours after his arrest by three gendarmes, in Beaumont-sur-Oise . The latter calls into question the technique of arresting the gendarmes, unlike the previous expertise ordered by the courts, the results of which were notified to the parties on May 29. Without forgetting the two autopsies, two expert reports and two reports requested by the family, which have followed one another since 2016.

Read also: Adama Traoré affair: are the conclusions of the last expert report "very clear"?

There are, in fact, several types of expertise. The most important is the judicial expertise ordered by a judge. Then, the judge can request counter-expert opinions at the request of the parties, but there is no obligation to do so. Finally, the parties may request the opinion of an expert. In a judgment dated September 28, 2012, the Court of

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Source: lefigaro

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