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Traoré case: finally the truth

2022-09-26T11:41:22.872Z


INTERVIEW – In a book to be published on September 29, Erwan Seznec, journalist at Point, looks back on the Adama Traoré case, this man who died in July 2016 after being arrested by gendarmes. Since then, his family and many activists have erected this incident as a symbol of...


LE FIGARO.

- You co-wrote your book with the mother of one of the gendarmes accused by the relatives of Adama Traoré.

Why ?

ERWAN SEZNEC.

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It was about restoring the balance.

The "Truth for Adama" committee, created in the days following the death, succeeded in embodying the David of the city against the state Goliath, the struggle of ordinary citizens against the heavy and powerful administrative machine.

This is probably what earned him the sympathy of so many media and people.

Do the latter realize that the gendarmes in question, to whom nothing has been reproached to date, are human beings, that they have parents, children?

The gendarmerie chose silence, in accordance with a constant line.

The army remains the great mute.

This does not mean that the six gendarmes targeted by the Adama committee and their families remain indifferent to the torrents of invective that have been sweeping over them for six years.

Virginie Gautier does not speak on behalf of her son Romain, who commanded…

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