The Court of Cassation has decided to disorient Rennes in the investigation of the death of Steve Maia Caniço during the music festival in Nantes, marked by a controversial police operation, we learned Wednesday from judicial source.
The request for expatriation, motivated by imperatives of "serenity" and "impartiality", was initiated by the two investigating judges of Nantes in charge of the investigation for "manslaughter" after the discovery in late July of the body of the young man in the Loire.
"Guarantee the serenity of the judicial information"
"The change of scenery is to ensure the serenity of the judicial information and objective impartiality of the court seized," said in early August in a statement the Attorney General at the Rennes Court of Appeal, which had seized the Court of cassation of the request of the judges nantais. "The continuation of the investigations will require to seek all the responsibilities in the death of the young man and thus potentially, those of usual institutional partners of the tribunal de grande instance of Nantes", explained Jean-François Thony.
Such a request, occurring as early in the investigation, is rare. But the disappearance of this extracurricular 24-year-old animator caused a strong emotion and sharp criticism of the intervention of the police on the night of 21 to 22 June.
Participants in the sound system on the banks of the Loire had reported being blinded by a cloud of tear gas, some had fallen into the river. Steve Maia Caniço did not know how to swim, according to his family. His body was found on July 29 in the Loire at Nantes.
The IGA report will be delivered "no later than 15 September"
Initially expected Wednesday, the report of the Inspectorate General of Administration (IGA), seized after the death of Steve Maia Caniço to understand the conditions of organization of the Music Festival in Nantes, will be made "at the latest September 15, "said Secretary of State for the Interior Laurent Nuñez Monday. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner assured that he would make "public" the conclusions of the investigation and that it will "(t) all the consequences".
Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced on July 30th this new investigation "to go further" than the conclusions of the IGPN administrative inquiry, which could not establish a "link" between the intervention of the police and the disappearance of Steve Maia Caniço.