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To recognize the responsibility of the State
": after having exhausted the remedies before the criminal justice, the family of Rémi Fraisse, killed in 2014 in the Tarn by a grenade thrown by a gendarme, was Wednesday 10 November before the administrative court From toulouse.
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In March 2021, the Court of Cassation confirmed that the gendarme had been dismissed on October 26, 2014 at the 21-year-old botanist with an OF-F1 type offensive grenade, during violent clashes on the construction site of the controversial water from Sivens.
A few days after his death, the government suspended the use of these grenades by the police, before banning them definitively several months later.
State responsibility
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It is a question of implementing an action so that the State, at the highest level, here the prefect and through him the Minister of the Interior, is considered responsible
", told AFP the one of the lawyers of the young man's family, Étienne Noël. "
That is to say those who put grenades in the hands of the gendarmes, like (in other cases) those who put LBDs (launchers of defense bullets, editor's note) in the hands of the police
», Insisted Mr. Noël.
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We persist in saying that there is a fault of the State and that Rémi Fraisse, who was completely peaceful, was not targeted by this operation of maintaining order
", affirmed the lawyer of the family. , deploring the “
sharing of responsibility
” requested by the public rapporteur.
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He did not cause anything at all, he wanted to rescue a person who had just taken a flashball in the chest,
" added Me Noël.
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In addition to requesting the commitment of the responsibility of the State, the family of Rémi Fraisse - his father, his mother, his sister and his two grandmothers have requested 75,000 euros each in compensation for their moral damage.
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It is a sum that we asked for symbolically, since in any case (the death of a child) it is priceless
", underlined Me Noël, deeming however "
ridiculous
" the sum three or four times lower proposed to the court by the public protractor.
The decision will be released on November 25.
But it is especially in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), seized of the file, that the family of the young man places the most hope today.