- Babacar Gueye, 27, was killed in 2015 during a police intervention in the Maurepas district, hit by five shots.
- The investigation is still ongoing in this case which had initially been dismissed.
- A rally in homage to Babacar Gueye and the victims of police violence will take place on Saturday afternoon at the Esplanade de Gaulle in Rennes.
She marched Tuesday in Paris alongside Assa Traore to denounce the police violence. Saturday afternoon, it is on the Esplanade de Gaulle in Rennes that Awa Gueye will come and demand "justice and truth" for her brother Babacar, killed during a police intervention in the Maurepas district. The facts date back almost five years. On the night of December 2 to 3, 2015, this 27-year-old Senegalese man died in the stairwell of a building, hit by five bullets fired by a police officer from the anti-crime brigade.
The police intervened that evening when the young man, who was in an altered psychological state, mutilated himself with a kitchen knife. One of the officers then took out his service weapon and fired five times at Babacar Gueye who died on the spot despite the intervention of the emergency services. A first investigation in 2016 concluded that there was self-defense and the file was closed by the prosecution. A version that the victim's family never believed.
The reconstruction of the facts still awaited
Since then, relatives of Babacar, who have joined the proceedings as a civil party, have been fighting to have the responsibility of the police officer responsible for the fatal shootings recognized. Open in 2017, a judicial investigation is still in progress. But she experienced big hiccups with the destruction "by mistake" in 2018 of seals, including the one containing the weapon. An expert report also concluded that none of the five bullets had been fired from the front, thereby undermining the family's self-defense thesis.
The latter mainly calls for a reconstruction of the facts in the presence of all the protagonists, including the eight police officers present that evening as well as the firefighters and the Samu. "We were told about a re-enactment late last year," said Tariq, spokesperson for the Justice and Truth group for Babacar Gueye. But there has been a change of examining magistrate this winter and since then we are still waiting.
The police officer placed under assisted witness status
The accused police officer was placed under the status of assisted witness. "He has always claimed to have acted in self-defense but he still remains marked by the fact of having made a victim", assures his lawyer, Maître Frédéric Birrien, specifying that his client is also waiting for the reconstitution of the facts "so that the legal page turns ”.
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