Derek Chauvin trial: "Justice seeks to get out of a dilemma"
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On May 25, 2020, Derek Chauvin, 45, including 19 in the Minneapolis Police Department, kneels for nearly nine minutes on the neck of George Floyd, a black forty-something, pinned to the ground and handcuffed.
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By: Mikaël Ponge
22 mins
The trial of the white police officer accused of killing George Floyd enters hard, this Monday, March 29, 2021, in Minneapolis, United States with the start of hearings on the merits of the case.
The prosecution speaks in a public building transformed into an entrenched camp for this trial which should last three or four weeks.
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On May 25, 2020, Derek Chauvin, 45, including 19 in the Minneapolis Police Department, kneels for nearly nine minutes on the neck of George Floyd, a black forty-something, pinned to the ground and handcuffed.
The images traveled the world and sent down crowds all over the planet.
Derek Chauvin is today indicted on three grounds: murder, manslaughter, and willful violence resulting in death.
A third charge has been added,
"easier to prove"
according to our guest, the historian Francois Durpaire, according to whom
"justice seeks to get out of a dilemma"
between the absence of a conviction or a too heavy conviction. .
The constitutional referendum at the heart of the protest in Haiti
Thousands of Haitians demonstrated on Sunday March 28, 2021 in the capital Port-au-Prince to denounce the draft constitutional referendum carried by the president.
Jovenel Moïse wishes the adoption of a new Constitution by a vote which would be organized on June 27, 2021. Such a project stirs up the criticisms even in the camp of the Head of State because the chosen procedure does not seem to respect the provisions of the current constitution.
Report by
Amélie Baron.
Chilean elections postponed?
The government is asking Congress to postpone the election from April 10 and 11 to May 15 and 16, 2021 ”, due to the health crisis, writes El Mercurio in the front page.
The newspaper notes that the country recorded, in March 2021, its worst daily figures in terms of contaminations and hospitalizations.
La Tercera explains that "President Piñera will present a constitutional reform", to postpone the date of the ballot which should make it possible to appoint the members of a Constituent Assembly responsible for drafting the future Constitution of Chile.
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