This Sunday at 17 hours, many tributes will be made everywhere in France - Marseille, Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Avignon ...- Zineb Redouane. This octogenarian from Marseille died last December after a demonstration of "yellow vests" during which she was hit in the face by a tear gas grenade as she closed the windows of her apartment on the 4th floor because she was embarrassed by the gases and smoke.
The jurisdiction of Marseille has "done everything to quell this case"
After many adventures, the judicial inquiry opened in Marseille was finally lost in Lyon. An examining magistrate should be appointed in the coming days. A judge on which family lawyers place a lot of hopes. "The investigation so far is shameful, the lGPN [the police force, editor's note] did not do its job properly, because it did not force the police to hand over their firearms as part of the investigation is unacceptable! ", insists Me Yassine Bouzrou, one of the lawyers of the family of the victim
"We were told that the nearby surveillance camera was out of order, we do not believe it at all, and there is nothing to corroborate that element," he adds. "Finally, the authorities, whether the President of the Republic or the Minister of the Interior said there was no direct link between the grenade and the death of Mrs. Redouane, is totally false" , he says.
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"You have to be extremely stupid or extremely bad faith to say that Zineb Redouane did not die as a result of a tear gas grenade received in the face, pulled by the police," he said. he. Before concluding: "Today, the hope lies in the recovery of this file by independent magistrates, far from Marseille and this jurisdiction that has done everything to quell this case and hinder the investigation".