Gathering in tribute to Lamine Dieng, who died after an arrest

About a thousand people participated Saturday in Paris in a rally in memory of Lamine Dieng, thirteen years after the death of this Franco-Senegalese 25 years after an arrest, in a context of denunciation of police violence, found a journalist of AFP. According to an amicable agreement unveiled on Monday by the European Court of Human Rights, the French state will pay 145,000 euros to the relatives of Lamine Dieng in order to settle all prosecutions in this case.

"It is an admission of guilt, nobody, even less a State accepts to pay unless he is guilty," declared in front of the demonstrators place of the Republic Ramata Dieng, the sister of the young dead man. "The police violence continues, it does not stop, there is nothing that stops them [the police] because there is no sanction", she launched, calling for the end of certain police intervention techniques, including ventral plating, the throttle key and folding.

" No justice, no peace "

"To all the victims, do not give up your rights," she added before handing over to a dozen families who have followed one another to tell the story of the lives of their loved ones, victims, according to them, of police violence. Wissam el-Yamni, Babacar Gueye, Shaoyao Liu, Gaye Camara or Adama Traoré: the last hours of these men have been told, as well as the legal proceedings initiated. "If the police are to be condemned, the justice system is also responsible," said Omar Slaouti, spokesperson for the family of Ali Ziri, a 69-year-old man who died after an arrest in Argenteuil in 2009.

Interventions by families and relatives were punctuated by the slogan "No justice no peace", widely used by the demonstrators. “We are continuing their fight. Thirteen years of struggle is hard, it is tiring psychologically, financially it is not easy. These families have shown us the way, the way. The fight "truth and justice for Adama" does not happen like that. We are getting there because families have fought before, "said Assa Traore, whose collective last week called for a demonstration against police violence. The demonstrators then started a march towards the Ménilmontant district where Lamine Dieng died.

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