- A year ago, on June 21, 2019, Steve Maia Caniço drowned in the Loire after falling from the Quai Wilson, in Nantes, during the Fête de la Musique, after an intervention by the police.
- A report from the Nantes judicial police indicates that the young man's mobile phone was still on a few minutes after the police arrived at the scene, thus contradicting the first conclusions of the IGPN report.
- According to the assistant national secretary of the Alliance police union, his phone could very well have continued to transmit while immersed in the Loire. 20 Minutes wanted to verify this theory.
One year after the death of Steve Maia Caniço, this 24-year-old extracurricular youth leader died after falling in the Loire during the 2019 edition of the Fête de la Musique in Nantes, an interview with the national secretary of the union of Alliance font on BFMTV was pulled from the archive cupboard and posted on Twitter Monday.
In this extract, the trade unionist Benoît Barret returns to the report of the judicial police of Nantes in September 2019, which notes that Steve's cell phone, at the center of all the attentions of the investigation, has "limited" one last time to 4:33 a.m., about ten minutes after the start of the police intervention on Quai Wilson to disperse a hundred revelers who were in no hurry to end the evening. This discovery calls into question the conclusions of the IGPN cited by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe who, based on the time of the last SMS sent by the young man (3:16 am), declared that there was " no connection between Steve's disappearance and the police intervention ”.
This is a representative of Alliance inventing the waterproof phone.
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Result, a year later, all the police officers involved are still on duty 🔥 # JusticePourSteve pic.twitter.com/6pnvXsWPjs
Because if the phone went off at 4.33 a.m., this tends to prove that the device was still working when the police intervened and that Steve Maia Caniço could not have fallen into the water before the forces were loaded. of the order. What Benoît Barret questioned on BFMTV on September 11th. What did he say? That “a telephone, even in water, does not turn off automatically immediately. (…) The telephone that bounded can be either out of the water, or in the water, quite simply. " 20 Minutes therefore simply decided to check the accuracy of this statement.
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Before going into details, let us ask ourselves precisely what is the “boundary” of a phone: to make or receive calls, SMS or simply to connect to the Internet and use applications, our devices need to link to a relay antenna, also called a “terminal”. To “limit”, a mobile phone must therefore necessarily be switched on in order to transmit its data. On the other hand, it is not necessary to use it for the bounding to be carried out. "A lost but turned on phone, for example, can continue to send positioning information", confirms Vincent Gauthier, teacher-researcher at the Institut Mines-Télécom Paris Sud. That’s for theory, let’s move on to practice.
The whole question is whether a mobile phone can limit if it is submerged, as stated by the assistant national secretary of the Alliance police union. On this point, the experts are formal: it is impossible. A mobile having been splashed “can still work, on the other hand if it is immersed in water, it's no, says our specialist. Even immersed in 10 centimeters of water, the radiotelephone frequencies no longer pass, it's over. Even if the phone can continue to work for some time, if it is more or less waterproof, it is however not possible that it emits anything. "
"Electronics don't like water"
A finding which also undermines the theory of Benoît Barret that, with certain "waterproof shells", a phone can continue to work and limit. If a mobile protected by such a shell can actually survive an immersion, it cannot, however, emit the slightest wave. "If the phone floats, we can imagine that it could work, but as soon as it is submerged, it no longer works, it can no longer limit it," confirms Vincent Gauthier. "Electronics don't like water - experiment with your phone in a swimming pool - and waves are very difficult to propagate in water", said Eduardo Motta Cruz, director of the Telecom and Networks Chair from the University of Nantes, to our colleagues from France Info last September.
As a result, Steve's family theory seems to be strengthened. The fact that the phone worked until 4:33 tends to demonstrate that the young man did not fall into the water before the intervention of the police. This would also validate the testimony of another person, Alexis. B, 23, fell into the water after the arrival of the Quai Wilson police, and who said he saw a person struggling in the water without being able to help him. Contacted by 20 Minutes , Cécile de Oliveira, the lawyer for the family of Steve Maia Caniço, finds it "deplorable that the Union union is sinking with fanciful hypotheses. "
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"We must stop using the argument:" Steve's phone no longer broadcasts at 3:17 am "to say that he could have fallen at 3:18 am. This is false. A man fell into the water due to tear gas around 4:15 a.m. reports that he saw Steve struggling next to him, that he tried to help him but that he has nothing could do. And he saw it sink. […] These elements are inevitably included in the investigation, ”declared to Ouest-France Johanna, Steve's sister, in 2019. This witness indeed certified not to have identified the distressed figure among the rescued rescued, leaving few doubt about his identity.
One year after the facts, the procedure continues its course and no definitive answer has been brought to date, whereas three judicial information are currently open: a first against X for intentional homicide (on Steve), a second relates to the complaint collective for "involuntary injuries, failure to assist a person in danger and endangering the life of others", filed by 89 participants in the techno evening, and a third for "intentional violence with a gun in a meeting and on a person holding a public authority ”, after the complaints made by ten police officers present on the spot that evening. "The investigations never advance quickly enough for the victims," concludes Cécile de Oliveira. But we are within a reasonable time given the complexity of the case. "
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