A fresco in memory of Steve Maia Caniço -

JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP

His body was found drowned in the Loire a month after his disappearance, after a strong police intervention on the evening of the Music Festival in 2019. A reconstruction of the Steve Maia Caniço case will take place Tuesday in Nantes on the quays of the Loire, we learned on Monday.

"The technical operations carried out under the authority of the investigating magistrate will take place at the scene of the crime between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.", detailed Philippe Astruc, the public prosecutor of Rennes, where the case was disoriented at the beginning of September 2019. Philippe Astruc added that he would take the floor "before or after to explain what is expected of these acts".

"A great expectation of justice"

The disappearance of this 24-year-old extracurricular animator triggered great emotion in the city where demonstrators demanded "Justice for Steve", judging the police intervention and the use of tear gas disproportionate in front of young people having fun in a neighborhood without housing.

"I think it is an act of investigation which is very important to carry out and therefore I can only be satisfied with what the judge organizes", indicated Me Cécile de Oliveira, lawyer for the family of Steve Maia Caniço, on the reenactment.

"Anything that goes in the direction of moving forward in this instruction, which is a complex instruction, is necessarily, in quotes, good news for the family," she added, explaining that those close to Steve Maia Caniço are in a "great expectation of justice".

Three judicial information "against X" are investigated in Rennes.

One for "manslaughter" concerning the death of Steve, the other for "endangering the life of others", concerning the police intervention, and the third, for violence against "person holding authority public ”with regard to the attack on the police.

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