REPORTAGE
Four years after the death of Adama Traoré during an arrest in Beaumont-sur-Oise, 3,000 people marched Saturday in this city of Val-d'Oise, in a new context of mobilization against police violence. This march was organized by the committee demanding justice for this 24-year-old black man, who died in the neighboring commune of Persan on July 19, 2016, shortly after his arrest, after a chase with the gendarmes.
Her sister, Assa Traoré, at the origin of the rally, began her speech by saying that she did not trust the justice system. "If we could trust French justice there would have been a dismissal in my brother's case. We fought with my family, with the Adama committee, with the people. We have all the elements for a public trial. " She also requests reclassification of the facts as voluntary homicide.
A walk co-organized by an environmental association
Unprecedented, this tribute was for the first time organized by both the Adama Committee and Alternatiba, one of the main organizations of the climate movement, in the name of a common fight against inequality. "We are all here together under the slogan 'We want to breathe'. This refers both to police violence and to air pollution in working-class neighborhoods," explains Cécile, of the environmental association.
Before the march, the families of Cédric Chouviat, Lamine Dieng, Ibrahima Bah, Babacar Gueye, Gaye Camara and Sabri spoke to denounce the deaths of their loved ones because of "police violence". This fourth edition also doubles as a festival with personalities and artists. For the Adama Committee, it is also a question of widening its base, in the wake of the rallies of 2 and 13 in Paris, which had drained thousands of demonstrators.