The examining magistrates have ordered a new medical expertise in the context of the Traoré case, entrusted to Belgian doctors, lawyers for the gendarmes announced in a statement on Friday.
This decision was taken, according to this press release, following "the hearing of the witness with whom Adama Traoré had taken refuge".
Last week, this key witness, with whom Adama Traoré had taken refuge on July 19, 2016 in Beaumont-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise) just before his arrest by three gendarmes, was heard for the first time by the magistrates instructors, in the presence of lawyers.
War of expertise
Ten days after the incident, this man had told investigators that he had found Adama Traore sitting at his door, "out of breath" after a chase in the heat wave.
The latest expert report ordered by the magistrates concluded that the death by asphyxiation of Adama Traoré, in the courtyard of the Persian gendarmerie, had been caused by a genetic disease, sickle cell anemia, associated with a rare pathology, sarcoidosis, " the occasion of an episode of stress and effort ”.
Conclusions challenged by a second opinion commissioned by the family of the victim, who invokes "positional asphyxia induced by the ventral plating".
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