The report of a new expertise requested by the family of Adama Traoré, who died on July 19, 2016 at the Persan barracks after his arrest in Beaumont, has just fallen.
He calls into question the behavior of the three gendarmes, authors of his arrest.
"The death of Adama Traoré is linked to mechanical traumatic asphyxia syndrome by blockage of thoracic and abdominal breathing as a result of a ventral plating, aggravated by exertional hypoxemia", concludes the report drawn up by a panel of nine experts , including Doctor Michael Biden, forensic expert in forensic medicine in New York, who autopsied Georges Floyd, this black American who died in Minneapolis (USA) in May 2020.
"Cardiac and hematological pathologies did not accelerate or participate in the death of Mr. Adama Traoré", they believe.
This 24-year-old did indeed suffer from two illnesses.
"18 doctors believe that the gendarmes caused the death of Adama Traoré"
For Me Yassine Bouzrou, lawyer for the Traoré family: “this international medical expertise carried out by eminent specialists recognized worldwide is in addition to three previous medical assessments concluding to the responsibility of the police officers in the death of Adama Traoré.
So we have 18 different doctors who believe that the gendarmes caused the death of Adama Traoré.
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The latest expertise, carried out by four Belgian experts at the request of the investigating judges and signed on January 13, also concluded that “the role of ventral tackling cannot be ruled out”.
Experts attributed the young man's death to "heat stroke aggravated" by the immobilization and handcuffing maneuvers of the gendarmes.
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“These medical expertises, the statements of the gendarmes indicating that Adama Traoré took the weight of the three gendarmes on his body, the evolving and contradictory versions of the latter, constitute in law sufficient charges to send the gendarmes before a trial court.
My clients therefore ask what they have been asking from the start, that the investigating judges respect the law, ”insists Me Yassine Bouzrou.
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The three gendarmes dispute any responsibility for the death of this young man.