The march took place on Sunday February 7, 2021. -
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Several hundred people took part on Sunday in a white march to the prison of Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) to demand "the truth" on the death of a 28-year-old prisoner, facts which are the subject of two inquiries, judicial and administrative.
Dressed in black T-shirts bearing the slogan "Justice for Jimony" and bloody handcuffs, the demonstrators, including anti-police violence activist Assa Traoré, walked in silence in the cold to the entrance to the penitentiary center, where they chanted “We want the truth” and “No justice, no peace”.
Taken by Samu
Jimony Rousseau died Tuesday at Jossigny hospital, eight days after being transported there by the Samu in cardio-respiratory arrest.
According to the first elements of the investigation, delivered Wednesday by the prosecutor of Meaux Laureline Peyrefitte, the detainee would have refused, on January 25, "to return to his cell from the promenade yard, and adopted a behavior in turn very agitated and aggressive ".
"He would have violently opposed his handcuffing, in particular by biting one of the guards in the blood."
During his transfer to the disciplinary unit, "the supervisors noting that he had suddenly become calm, called the medical unit".
The young man was then taken to the hospital by the Samu, in cardiovascular arrest.
The autopsy carried out Wednesday concluded in "the existence of a cerebral edema due to a prolonged cardiac arrest", according to the prosecutor, who assured that the "bruises and contusions" found on his body had "not been d 'affect the fatal process'.
The prison hierarchy heard
"The more precise causes of death will thus be sought in further in-depth examinations which will be carried out very soon," added the prosecutor.
Sunday, the young man's sister launched "a call for witnesses" to the address of the detainees, the guards and the management of the penitentiary center.
"My brother was in good health, we are told that he had a heart attack, I do not believe it", she launched to the demonstrators gathered in front of the entry of the prison.
"Assa Traoré said that blacks and Arabs were not safe in this country, we have proof of it", added the aunt of the young man.
The prosecution opened a judicial investigation for "search for the causes of death", entrusted to the judicial police of Versailles. The investigators began Friday to hear the hierarchy of the prison, indicated to AFP a source close to the investigation.
The Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, for his part, ordered an inspection in order to "shed light on this affair".
The deceased detainee had been imprisoned since January 6, awaiting trial for "acts of habitual violence by a spouse" and rebellion.
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