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This is the third year in a row that Adama Traoré's family organized a rally on Saturday in Beaumont-sur-Oise to mark the death of the young man, on July 19, 2016, who died asphyxiating the premises of the gendarmerie after a muscled arrest. The "yellow vests" and several associations were also there to show their support.
With this new march, the family of Adama Traore hoped to make this day " a historic act " against " police violence ".
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" This walk with" yellow vests "is a big step in the fight against police violence, " said Assa Traoré alongside members of the Adama committee. " The Adama fight exposes this repressive and authoritarian system, how France treats people in poor neighborhoods and especially how police violence is considered by this authoritarian system ," she adds. " We do not want in 2020, there is still a march for Adama but there is a trial, " says the sister of Adama Traore.
Adama Traoré: a symbol of " police violence "
Since 2016, the relatives of Adama gather and " it is a fight that will lead to the trial. We will have the truth for my little brother, they killed Adama Traoré but they will not kill his name .
The demonstration passed in front of the gendarmerie barracks where the death of Adama Traoré was noted on July 19, 2016, shortly after his arrest after a chase. The case, still under investigation, has since become a symbol of " police violence ".
Through this fight, protesters parade for " all victims " of law enforcement, with a slogan: " Let us shoulder the authoritarianism ."
Reportage during the march for Adama Traoré in Beaumont-sur-Oise 20/07/2019 Play
Common social demands
Several groups of "yellow vests" called to go to this small town of Val-d'Oise and make the march their "Act 36" national.
In the procession, anti-fascist activists, ecologists or collective defenders of undocumented migrants. All those with whom the Adama committee has been trying for several months to build an " alliance of struggles ".
Several organizations, the PCF, the International League for Human Rights (LDH) or Amnesty International, had also called to join the march, worried about the " unprecedented number of serious injuries " at recent protests, according to Amnesty.
" We want to make this day, the suburbs and Beaumont-sur-Oise, an important political center ," told AFP Youcef Brakni, the Adama committee.
Among the personalities who signed the call to protest, writers Annie Ernaux, Edward Louis or the sociologist Geoffroy de Lagasnerie.
On the march for Adama, in front of the gendarmerie of Persan where, 3 years ago, Adama was left unconscious handcuffed face down in the sun - and where he died after a ventral plating #JusticePourAdama pic.twitter.com/ngAShiHwlw
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie (@gdelagasnerie) July 20, 2019New medical expertise expected
In March, the investigating judges who were preparing to close their investigation without questioning the gendarmes reopened their investigations after the submission of a medical report made at the request of the family and which contradicted the conclusions on the death, attributed to the previous state of health of the young man.
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On the other hand, the judges have not yet ordered a new medical report announced in April, after the submission of the report made at the request of the family.