The lawyer for the family of Adama Traoré, who died in 2016 after his arrest, questions the existence of a liability between the 24-year-old young man and one of the three gendarmes who arrested him, in a letter to judges dated Friday and consulted by AFP.
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Questioned ten days after the death, this soldier said he knew Adama Traore and specified that he was " very unfavorably known " of his services, according to a report of which AFP was aware. " I cannot tell you how many times I have arrested him, but perhaps three or four times in three years. Each time, it went wrong because there has always been violent opposition from this individual. There was violence, rebellion, insults, leaks, "said the team leader during this hearing by the investigators.
Possibility of "revenge" towards the young man
On July 19, 2016, Adama Traoré died in the barracks of the Persian gendarmes almost two hours after his arrest in his city of Beaumont-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise) and at the end of a chase after having escaped a first inquiry. The family's lawyer, Me Yassine Bouzrou, therefore requests that the procedures in which the three gendarmes, placed under the intermediate status of assisted witness, have dealt with Adama Traoré, be joined to the investigation. 2016.
" Studying the past relationships between Mr. Traoré and the gendarmes who arrested them is useful for understanding the context of the arrest and the state of mind in which " they were, he wrote. Questioned by AFP, Me Bouzrou suggests the possibility of " revenge " against the young man and believes that " this hypothesis must be considered by the courts ".
In the wake of the death of George Floyd in the United States, the family of Adama Traoré tries to relaunch the case in France, erected as a symbol of police violence and become a battle of medical expertise: on the one hand, a ten ordered by the examining magistrates put the gendarmes out of the case; on the other, the two carried out at the request of the young man's relatives sweep their conclusions.
To achieve this, the family has made several requests for acts from the magistrates in recent days, including the withdrawal of the investigation service, which was refused, or the identification of a witness who had helped the young man. to escape his first arrest on July 19.
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