Since the discovery on Monday of the body of the young man, several slogans call to gather, giving all appointments in downtown Nantes, Saturday at 13 hours. The lawyer of the family of Steve Maia Caniço, Cécile de Oliveira, said Friday that the family of the young Nantais "did not support at all" the rally planned Saturday.
She adds to the microphone of Europe 1: "Steve's parents are at first in a sorrow that dominates their emotions.They are in a pain that terrace them and that leads them to want to recollect and want to be in silence. "
Steve's parents "are extremely traumatized"
The prefecture of Loire-Atlantique announced Thursday the ban of any demonstration or gathering in several perimeters of downtown Nantes, Saturday from 10 to 20h. The prefect said on Friday that he did not want "individuals to rob the community of the moment of emotion that is desired by all of Steve's friends".
The lawyer for Steve's family says that "Steve's parents do not want any overflow." She continues: "They are extremely traumatized by what happened and they are in the idea, that for the memory of Steve, things happen calmly."
The two investigating judges of Nantes request a change of scenery of the investigation
The two investigating judges in charge of the investigation for "manslaughter" after the discovery have also asked Friday that the procedure is disorientated. "I explain it by the fact that they wish a real distance with the services of investigators", underlines Cécile de Oliveira for which "it is not possible that magistrates, who work daily with services of investigators , work with them. "
The lawyer believes that this decision is "ethically everything to be made clear". It wishes "that the magistrates instructors, to whom this affair will be entrusted later by a decision of the Cour de cassation, have the courage and the independence of the two magistrates nantais." She states that "it is a very exceptional decision and is wise in this case."
"He is happy that there is a form of questioning on the use of weapons"
The Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, also acknowledged Friday that there was still a "questioning on the use of tear gas" during the police intervention on the evening of the Music Festival in Nantes. "He is happy that there is a form of questioning on the use of weapons on these places in the middle of the night," said the lawyer.
Cecile de Oliveira concludes by being more than perplexed about the first report by the IGPN: "The IGPN made a first report which I immediately considered extremely hasty with conclusions based essentially on the observations of the police themselves. and not comments that complained about the violence, so this report is questionable. "