Avoid "the spread of fragmentary or inaccurate information". In a press release published on Monday, the public prosecutor of Paris, Rémi Heitz, indicated that the magistrates in charge of the investigation into the death of Adama Traoré, on July 19, 2016 in the gendarmerie of Persan, in the Val -d'Oise, heard "calling two witnesses for hearing".
This decision, specifies Rémi Heitz, had been announced to the relatives of the victim in April 2019 and the hearing was to take place at the end of September 2019 but one of them - the one with whom Adama Traoré took refuge just before his arrest - did not show up. “Investigations have since been launched to locate him. The second witness is a woman who witnessed her arrest on the street.
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This relatively rare clarification process echoes an article published in Le Parisien on Monday that the Defender of Rights himself sought to question these two witnesses shortly after the facts, in vain. “As early as 2016, the Defender of Rights understood that it was necessary to hear important witnesses. The examining magistrates took four years to draw the same conclusions, despite our request, ”deplored in the article the family lawyer, Me Yassine Bouzrou. This press release also comes in the context of denouncing particularly violent police violence.
In this investigation, recalls the public prosecutor, ten expert reports were carried out by "experts and sworn doctors" to which are added the two medical reports produced by the civil parties. "This procedure takes place in compliance with the adversarial process and the presumption of innocence which is imposed on investigating magistrates and judicial experts", insists the magistrate. And to conclude: "Justice is doing everything to reach the manifestation of the truth about the circumstances of the death of Adama Traore. "
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