Investigating judges charged with investigating the death of Shaoyao Liu, a Chinese family man killed by police fire in 2017, have ordered a dismissal, AFP sources told AFP on Sunday.
Mortally shot by a BAC police officer
The nonsuit order was issued on July 11, according to a judicial source. The family of the victim appealed the decision, in a case that had angered part of the Chinese community in Paris, provoking several demonstrations.
Shaoyao Liu was shot dead by a police officer from the Anti-Crime Squad (BAC) in his Parisian home in the 19th arrondissement in March 2017, while according to the police, he was scurrying another officer. This version is disputed by the family who claims that the victim, who was with his children, used scissors to prepare fish, and that she had "injured no one". Beijing had publicly requested that light be shed on the circumstances of the death.
The family doubts the real investment of justice in this case
"From the beginning, the investigating judges, who are the armed arm of the prosecutor's office, have decided that it would not go very far, since the police officer who fired has never been indicted in this case," he said. told AFP Me Pierre Lumbroso, family lawyer. "Still, there are really objective elements that show that even if it was an accident, he shot this gentleman." "We appealed on July 17 to challenge this dismissal and we will continue to mobilize as long as there will be no trial," said Isabelle Liu, daughter of the victim, when asked by a rally Sunday in Paris against "injustice and police violence".
Isabelle Liu, present in the apartment when the policeman opened fire on his father, said at the rally that gathered several dozen people in the Republic Square, that "many elements identified by the experts lead us to doubt the investment deployed "by the justice in this file.