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  • Two years ago, Zineb Redouane died, hit in Marseille by a tear gas canister

  • Two years later, while the judicial investigation is stalling, an independent counter-investigation clearly implicates the CRS, contrary to what the judicial expertise concluded.

  • The lawyer of the son of the victim asks the prosecution to order a new expertise, and calls the police to speak to advance the investigation.

The CRS who shot Zineb Redouane, that evening in December 2018 when she closed the shutters of her apartment in Marseille, did they commit a fault?

Two years after the death of this octogenarian, hit by a tear gas canister on the sidelines of a demonstration, an independent second opinion conducted by the online investigative media Disclose and the London research group Forensic Architecture validates the thesis of a tense shot.

A hypothesis which goes against the initial conclusions of the investigation conducted by the Lyon prosecutor's office, and which clearly calls into question the responsibility of the CRS in this death.

According to the image-by-image analysis of the facts, he left the scene a few moments later alongside other colleagues.

It therefore seems probable that they were the first to realize that they had just committed a serious fault.

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Questioned by

20 Minutes

, the lawyer of the son of the victim, Brice Grazzini, asks the Lyon public prosecutor's office * to hold a new expertise, and calls for the end of an "omerta" within the police on this investigation .

How do you react to Disclose's revelations?

As a legal professional, I cannot take it at face value because this “expertise” was not done in a judicial context.

Faced with a contradictory expertise requested by an examining magistrate, this document does not stand out.

However, this document creates doubt about the conclusions of the ballistic expertise.

And since there is a doubt, we ask that a new expertise be carried out.

Did the Disclose investigation findings surprise you?

No, since we have always thought that there was a problem between the use made of the weapon, the positioning of the CRS which fires and the proximity of the buildings.

From a moment when we shoot between 35 and 45 degrees and we know that it can go up to 100 meters, there is a reflection to be had on the use which is made of the weapon.

This Disclose article brings an additional element to an investigation which seems to have come to a standstill, two years after the events ...

There is a rogatory commission which is in progress, so we cannot say that it is at a standstill.

Is there a desire to let this type of procedure get bogged down?

I can't say it, I don't have proof.

The question you really have to ask yourself is: "Is there a will to support this type of procedure?"

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I haven't seen any.

I did not see it.

So it is true that I also count on journalists and other investigations to advance the investigation.

Why ?

There is a real problem at the heart of the Zineb Redouane affair, the Maria affair (for which Me Grazzini is also the lawyer) and the other cases where the police officers who have committed offenses within the framework of the 'exercise of their function.

Who is investigating?

This is the IGPN.

The Paris public prosecutor's office was still proud to bring out 200 investigations into offenses committed by police officers during their service.

But I don't care that there are 200 investigations if it is so that these 200 investigations end with a discontinuation and that the ten judicial inquiries end with a dismissal.

If it's to give the appearance of investigation, it's no use.

As part of Zineb Redouane, the CRS brigade is identified.

It is a company from Saint-Etienne.

We know what sniper rifles these CRS had.

And, for its investigation, the IGPN does not tumble into the brigade for a seizure.

They send an email to ask, not too loudly: "Please, we need to get those guns".

And we tell them that it will not be possible because they need it for a next event.

It's a shame we don't have the answer to this message.

It is limited if the IGPN has not apologized for making this request.

Where did we see that?

What are you waiting for today in the Zineb Redouane affair?

We await the identification of the shooter and the supervisor.

Some know who they are.

They already know it.

The brigade knows it.

I am waiting for the omerta within the police to be broken, for the Zineb Redouane affair, for the Maria affair, for all these cases which are not moving forward because people are silent.

That would be to restore the image of the police who really need it.

* Contacted, the Lyon public prosecutor did not respond to our requests at the time of writing.

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A complaint before the Court of Justice of the Republic 

According to information from

Le Monde

, the lawyer for Zineb Redouane's daughter, Me Yassine Bouzrou, filed a complaint on Tuesday against the former interior minister Christophe Castaner before the Court of Justice of the Republic for "alteration and subtraction of evidence ”.

The lawyer suspects in particular the former minister and the former Marseille prosecutor Xavier Tarabeux, then in office, of having concerted while the investigation was starting.

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