The Parisian examining magistrates in charge of the investigation into the death of Adama Traoré have ordered new investigations centered on his past and that of the gendarmes, AFP learned on Friday from a source familiar with the matter.
They thus accepted, in an order on July 10, certain requests from Me Yassine Bouzrou, lawyer for the Traoré family, in particular those aimed at attaching to the investigation file all of the criminal records or proceedings in which Adama Traoré was able to be involved.
Administrative files of the three gendarmes
The examining magistrates asked in particular that the past procedures in which Adama Traoré was accused and in which the gendarmes who arrested him had intervened be "highlighted", which could make it possible to establish whether there was a dispute between them.
The three examining magistrates also request that the administrative files of the three gendarmes and their criminal records be produced.
They have however refused for the moment the reconstruction of the facts repeatedly requested by Me Bouzrou, explaining that they would rule on the subject after the return of new medical expertise entrusted to four Belgian doctors and expected for January 2021.
Identification work of new witnesses
They also refused to divest the investigation of the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) in favor of the Criminal Brigade, as requested by Yassine Bouzrou: the IGGN is entrusted with all of the new investigations, including work to identify new witnesses who could have witnessed the first arrest of the 24-year-old black man.
On July 19, 2016, Adama Traoré died in the barracks of the Persian gendarmes, almost two hours after his arrest in his town of Beaumont-sur-Oise, in Val-d'Oise, and at the end of a race- prosecution after having escaped a first arrest.
“Adama Festival” planned
A march and an "Adama festival" in memory of the young man are planned for Saturday in Beaumont-sur-Oise.
"We note that after four years of inertia and demonstrations denouncing the denial of justice, the judges have, since the rally in front of the Palace of Justice on June 2, 2020, ordered 16 acts of investigation and a medical expertise entrusted to doctors foreigners, "noted Bouzrou in a press release.
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