A call to protest throughout France Saturday, June 13, has been launched by the collective “The truth to Adama”. It is once again demand justice for Adama Traoré, the young man who died in 2016 following his arrest.
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A demonstration has been scheduled on Saturday 13 June 2020, to Paris, to demand justice for Adama Traoré, the young 24-year old man died after his arrest in July 2016, to Beaumont-sur-Oise (Val-d’oise). Overall, the appointment was given to the rallies, anti-racist and against police violence, in the wake of the movement initiated in the United States after the death of George Floyd, African-american 46-year-old, when he was arrested by the white policeman Derek Chauvin, may 25, 2020 in Minneapolis. In Paris, protesters are calling on new justice the cause of the gendarmes who participated in the arrest of Adama Traoré there are now nearly 4 years old. Follow below for the latest information on this parade as at high risk.
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13:41 – The prefecture has called for the closure of the shops and restaurants on the route
“To face this Saturday to the risk of gatherings”, the prefecture of police asked the shops, bars and restaurants”, located on the route of the demonstration in paris to close for the afternoon. “They will need to put in place a means of protection against damage and to close the terraces and shelves that will need to be emptied of all furniture that can be used as a projectile or a weapon “, said the release of the prefect.
13:20 – What is the route for the event ?
The event was launched by the committee of support to the family of Adama Traoré will start at 14: 30 on place de la République in Paris. The parade will then proceed to the place of the Opera house, passing by the boulevard Saint-Martin and the boulevard des Italiens.
13:01 to 10 000 to 20 000 people are expected at the event, according to police
According to the information of Paris, the forces of the order would expect to see between “10, 000 and 20, 000 persons”. The latest protest against racism and police violence were attended by 20 000 people, Tuesday, 2 June.
learn more The case of Adama Traoré
Adama Traoré died on July 19, 2016, in the barracks of Persian, nearly two hours after his arrest in his hometown of Beaumont-sur-Oise (Val-d’oise), at the end of a pursuit race, and after having escaped a first inquiry a hot summer day. While the liability of the authorities was, up to now discarded, a new expertise, conducted at the request of the family of Adama Traoré, has put in because there is a period of ten days the gendarmes in the death of the young man. This medical report was unveiled a few days after a final expertise ordered by the investigating judges in charge of this case sensitive, and that was out of the question the forces of law and order. Since then, the judicial expert who dismiss the responsibility of the gendarmes meet those, ordered by the family, which sweep away their conclusions. The last expertise ordered by the magistrates dismissed the responsibility of the forces of order in attributing the death to an “edema-cardiogenic” linked to the state of health of Adama Traoré.
Until then, it has been concluded that the death of Adama Traoré was not linked to a “positional asphyxia”, which could open the door to the forces of law and order in the death. The collective “The truth to Adama”, the initiative calls for a protest, has not renounced this as his version of the story is heard and it is in this sense that the protests are launched. “The family of Adama Traoré recalls that it expects improvements in the judicial system, and invitations to the discussion that there would be no purpose procedural”, tweeted the committee earlier this week, announcing that the gathering of the capital would be “starting at the Place de la République at 14: 30” in the direction of Opera.
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The call to demonstrate in Paris for Adama Traoré has been given an appointment on the Place de la République at 14: 30 to join the Opera. An event had already taken place last June 2, in front of the judicial court of Paris. 80 000 people according to organizers, 20 000 according to the police, were made on-site. The committee “The truth to Adama,” also called “all the cities of France to come and express […] to demand truth and justice for Adama and all the victims of the police or of the gendarmerie”. “We have achieved significant progress to obtain the truth and justice. The mobilization is the only way, today the entire world going through a global revolution”, was it written on the event on Facebook, in reference to similar events that have taken place in this time in the United States and in the world, caused by the case of George Floyd, an African-American who died during his arrest on may 25, 2020.
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