On June 2, 2016, at the beginning of the evening, a huge crowd converged on the Porte de Clichy, soon followed by reinforcements of the police mobilized in emergency, under the dumbfounded eyes of the inhabitants of the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
The authorities did not expect more than 20,000 people to gather that evening around the Batignolles judicial court, at the call of the family of Adama Traoré, this young black man who died after his arrest on July 19 2016 in Val-d'Oise.
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Among the protesters, a young black woman known as Nadjélika, who now has nearly 580,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.
Noticing a black policeman, the influencer would have shouted:
“Shame!
It's shame on you all, but especially on you.
Shame on you!
Sold!
You're on their side ”
.
This earned her, this Wednesday, March 3, to cross as an accused the doors of the court before which she had demonstrated.
Judged for "contempt of a person holding public authority", the young woman faces one year in prison and a fine of 15,000 euros.
"Despicable words"
In the wake of the events of June 2, the official concerned lodged a complaint.
Denouncing
“abject remarks”
, the prefect of police joined in this process.
“There is no race in the police, no more than racialized or oppressors.
There are civil servants who are committed to freedom, equality and fraternity and that on a daily basis! ”
, underlined on Twitter Didier Lallement, who praised the
“calm”
and the
“dignity”
of the police officer, member of the Directorate of public order and traffic (DOPC) of the Paris police headquarters.
"His honor and his function have been sullied"
, for his part estimated the lawyer for the police officer, Me Pascal Rouiller, who also defends one of the gendarmes involved in the arrest of Adama Traoré.
Me Arié Alimi, Nadjélika's counsel, for his part expressed to AFP his intention to "
defend the right to demonstrate, the right to express oneself politically in a demonstration, which was intended to challenge on the one hand police violence and on the other hand systemic discrimination against minorities in France
”.
Neither Me Rouiller nor Me Alimi were available to answer
Figaro's
questions
as the YouTubeuse's trial approached.