A participant in the Music Festival quai Wilson in Nantes, where disappeared Steve Maia Caniço, said he was removed from the investigation conducted by the Inspectorate General of the National Police, which refutes Friday the IGPN.
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According to the IGPN, this witness had been asked by email, was learned Friday close source of the file. "The mail I never received," assured his side to AFP this witness, Romain G. His lawyer, Pierre Huriet, was surprised by AFP that "in a sensitive case ", the IGPN" is content to send an email "while during his testimony at the police station, the witness had left all his contact information.
An IGPN email does exist ...
In this email dated June 28, unveiled by BFMTV and which AFP has read, the police commander in charge of investigations wrote: "We would be interested to collect your testimony and possibly that of the people who accompanied you". It is addressed to Romain G. and follows the report made the day before by the latter on the Internet platform IGPN. "If you have videos or photographs related to this police intervention, we would also be takers," adds the officer, then asks for his phone number.
This request is the subject of a few lines in the summary of the report of the IGPN made public Tuesday and which could not establish a link between the controversial police operation and the disappearance of Steve Maia Caniço, whose body has was found Monday. "In the absence of telephone numbers, an email was sent to him for collection of testimony, which he gave no further action," reads.
... The witness says he is ready to "have him appraised"
Romain G. said he was ready "if need be, if you look for me on it", to "appraise" his courier. He said he made "June 27 an IGPN report at 10:58". "I knew I was going to get some pressure if I was going to file a police complaint with the police station, so I preferred to come in with this joker," he said. But since "no one has given me any news".
Asked about the rally scheduled for Saturday, Romain G. said he had "not really want to go". "I'm afraid of recovery, breakers, I'm afraid of a lot of things," he said. As he had told the Press Ocean and the World , Romain G. came back, moved, on this evening of the Festival of Music.
According to him, everything started around 4:30. "I know the docks very well, in fact there are big stones on the platform, the edge of the platform ... Then there are paving stones, so it's a memory that I have, clearly is that when I get my girlfriend, on the ground, it's the big pebbles.We were a few centimeters, a step, a big step and we were in the water. In particular, he said that he "clearly" heard bodies falling into the water. "It lasted 25 seconds, I turned around with my girlfriend and we ran towards the roadside".