Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise), rue du Trouillet, on May 10.
Khalid Chouhbi climbs onto a black, red and gold YZF 250 motocross which roars furiously in the residential area of the Butte des Châtaigniers.
The dimensions of the machine are identical to those of the motorcycle that his son, Sabri, rode the night of his fatal accident, a year ago to the day this Monday, near a car of the anti-crime brigade (BAC) .
During this reconstruction of the drama, organized by the Lumière (s) collective for Sabri, Khalid plays the role of his son: he has the same build, square and massive. The patriarch tries to ride on the sidewalk, between the lamppost located opposite 52 rue du Trouillet, and the white utility vehicle that was parked there on the day of the accident, kindly looked at in the same place by its owner. "But you are not passing! The handlebars are too big, ”exclaims a relative. “My hand is blocked. I have to maneuver! »Khalid gets angry in his turn.
According to this unofficial reconstruction, Sabri does not seem to have been able to pass at high speed with his car at this place, located about twenty meters from the concrete electric pole where he ended his race in a pool of blood.
It is however the only thesis retained by the expertise in accidentology, returned three weeks after the tragedy.
"It's up to us to organize the reconstruction, it's deplorable"
In his conclusions, the expert concludes that there was an accident, after losing control at high speed, at night, on a narrow sidewalk. "This is the fourth obstacle, however insurmountable on the route determined by the expert," sighs Carole, Sabri's aunt. “It's crazy how much you can see with a reenactment. But it's up to us, the victims, to organize it. It's deplorable, ”plague Me Lucie Simon, the lawyer for the family, after filming the scene from every angle.
According to the lawyer, this expertise is however "one of the key pieces" of the preliminary investigation responsible for shedding light on the accident, entrusted to the departmental security of Val-d'Oise.
Investigation closed without follow-up by the Pontoise public prosecutor's office on October 28, 2020, for "absence of offense".
The public prosecutor justified this decision arguing that this expertise "confirmed the absence of intervention by a third party in the accident" and concluded "in a loss of control of the motorcycle while it was traveling on the sidewalk and hit the rearview mirror of a van ”.
Argenteuil (95), May 10.
"The preliminary investigation is incomplete and partial", accuses the lawyer of the family, Me Lucie Simon, during a press conference of the collective Lumière (s) for Sabri.
Philippe de Poulpiquet
"This expertise makes the version of the police officers its basic premise, without questioning it or proposing other hypotheses", deplores Lucie Simon, during a press conference organized before the reconstitution, Cité Champagne, 500 m from the premises. of the accident. The lawyer announces to have filed, last January, a complaint with constitution of civil party against X for "willful violence having resulted in the death without intention to give it". Objective: to obtain the reopening of the case, via the designation of an examining magistrate. With, in particular, the organization of an official reconstitution by justice.
"During the investigation, officials said they
had noticed a motocross-type motorcycle heading towards them at high speed
." The driver of the motorcycle "would have deported on the sidewalk to continue his way" in this narrow street. The sidewalk was also "narrow and strewn with obstacles" and Sabri had hit one of the posts, the parquet said shortly after the accident.
The mines are serious, this Monday, May 10, in the gallery of the city of Champagne, battered by the winds.
A relative of Sabri cannot contain her sobs.
"The preliminary investigation is incomplete and biased," accuses Me Simon.
“Many questions remain unanswered.
The family needs legal information to know the truth.
You don't grieve with uncertainties.
The central question remains the role of the BAC crew who crossed the road to Sabri in the rue du Trouillet.
The victim's clothes and laptop could not be found, tire tracks, cameras not used ...
"Did this Skoda have a violent positive act that directly resulted in Sabri's fall to death?" I am thinking of opening a door, or the use of a tear gas canister, ”summarizes the lawyer. “Sabri had enough space to cross this Skoda, on this two-way street. Especially since this car was unmarked, and, according to the police, did not have its flashing light activated. Sabri had no reason to wander onto the sidewalk, except that the behavior of the police forced him to do so, by force or by surprise. "
The clothes Sabri was wearing that evening have never been found. “Yet they would have made it possible to determine whether a gas was used. The young man's smartphone has also disappeared, making it impossible to geolocate at the time of the facts. The criminal lawyer at the Val-de-Marne bar also regrets that the “scene has not been frozen”. “Two days after the incident, I went there. I was able to take photographs of tire tracks that the expert did not see. And I found some dirt from the motocross. "
Among the other points to be clarified, according to the family, the strange back and forth movements of Sabri, just before the impact.
"Why does Sabri drive quietly, then, after two close U-turns, suddenly accelerate?"
»Asks Carole, Sabri's aunt.
“No research has been done to answer this question.
"
According to the family, the investigation would have led to the presence of a dozen police vehicles near the scene of the facts, at that time, including at least a second vehicle from the BAC of Ermont - and whose geolocation does not was not working, according to its occupants.
"Did Sabri pass other police cars whose actions could have resulted in his fall to death?"
"
The lawyer points out that "only two CCTV cameras in the street have been used while there are many more".
In addition, neither “the emergency police crew, who intervened first at the scene”, nor “the victim's friends, who went to the scene immediately after the incident”, would have been heard.
Another complaint: only the radio communications of the police services "after the collision" were used.
Solicited, neither the Pontoise prosecutor's office nor the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) wished to answer our questions.
The collective will launch a pot to help the family.
And organize, Saturday, May 22, a "march for the truth".
It will start at 1:30 p.m. from Argenteuil station, in the direction of the Berionne park.