The Paris court on Thursday released Assa Traoré of defamation proceedings brought by gendarmes she had accused of having killed her brother Adama.
Three years after her death, the young woman, who has become a figure in the fight against police violence, had published in July 2019 on Facebook a column entitled "J'accuse".
In a reference to Emile Zola's formula, Assa Traoré cited the names of several gendarmes and accused them in an anaphora of “having killed (his) brother Adama Traoré by crushing him with the weight of their bodies”, “of not to have rescued ”and“ to have refused to dismantle (him) by asserting that he was faking ”.
'I assume this letter "
“I assume this letter.
If the French justice in which I was supposed to trust had done the necessary work, perhaps at that time, I would not have wanted to write this letter, ”she defended herself at the time. of the trial.
The two days of hearing were the occasion for Assa Traoré and the collective “Truth and justice for Adama”, created following his death, to debate the causes of death.
Adama Traoré, a young black man of 24, died in the Persan barracks nearly two hours after his arrest in his town of Beaumont-sur-Oise, after a chase on a hot day.
Since that day, his family has been fighting to see the gendarmes on the dock.
In February, the gendarmes obtained a conviction of Assa Traoré by the Paris Court of Appeal, before which they attacked him in civil proceedings for “infringing the presumption of innocence”.
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