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- On 27 October 2005, two teenagers died electrocuted After a chase with police in Clichy-sous-Bois. The drama ablaze suburbs French.
- This trial for “failure to assist a person in danger” is the culmination of a long legal saga saw the change of venue, Bobigny, in Rennes.
Among the human tragedy – the death of two kids 15 and 17, Bouna Traoré and Zyed Benna, were electrocuted in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) in October 2005 – the magnitude of its social and political consequences – the burning suburbs for three weeks, the return of the state of emergency in the country for the first time since the war in Algeria – and legal translation, ten years after fact, the shift is staggering.
It may weigh on the trial that opens Monday, March 16, before the Criminal Court of Rennes. Once sieved law and procedure, the case of Clichy-sous-Bois and all it showed French fractures are summarized in fact only one question: the two policemen, Sébastien Gaillemin, Chief the flight crew of the 833 Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) patrolling October 27, 2005 in the streets of Clichy-sous-Bois and Stephanie Klein, which ensured that day the standard of the police station of Livry-Gargan are- ?, or not guilty of failing to assist a person in danger
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Everything played less than an hour this Oct. 27, 2005, the day of the school holidays. Eight teenagers from the city of Oak-Sharp in Clichy-sous-Bois walking home stadium of Livry-Gargan where they went play a football tournament. They cross the park, make a detour to a social housing construction site. From his window, the employee sees the neighbor’s funeral approach a shed, he feels that a young stands watch, suspects attempted theft and alert the police. The report was immediately transmitted to the LAC 833 which receives the order to go there. It is 17 h 25 min 43 s.
“They go out”
Bouna Traoré was the first to spot the police. “Run! “ he shouts to the group, which disperses immediately. BAC calls in one, has two others in the cemetery, still identify two silhouettes in the wasteland and demand radio reinforcement. It is 17 h 35 min 7 sec. A minute later, one of the officers, Sébastien Gaillemin radio ad: “The two individuals are located. They are to step over to go to the EDF website. “ He repeats: ” j’pense they are trying to break into the EDF site, would bring the world, we can identify a little neighborhood, they go far out. “ And he adds: ” At the same time, they return to the site, I did not give much of their skin. “
The night fell. Nobody sees Bouna Traoré, Zyed Benna and Kurdish boyfriend Muhittin Altun climb the concrete block wall four meters high surrounding the transformer and which in that place, is not bristling with barbed wire, then jump to inside. Half an hour later, at 18 h 12 min exactly an electric arc forms between Bouna and Zyed, both kids receive a discharge 20,000 volts and die on the spot.
Brûlé on any body, Muhittin Altun managed to climb outside and join the greats of the city to the mall to raise the alarm. He later recalled that the last thing he remembers is Zyed telling him, scared: “If civilians catch me, my father, he sent me back home in Tunisia …” Fifteen minutes after the official announcement of the death of Bouna Traore and Zyed Benna, a first vehicle ignites in Sevran.
Long tunnel
In a climate political tension, the investigation of the case open for “non-assistance to a person in danger” and “deliberately endangering the lives of others” is entrusted to two judges of Bobigny. All officers of the BAC agreed, only two of them, Sébastien Gaillemin and Stephanie Klein, are indicted. The judges criticized the first to have done nothing to warn young people about the danger “serious and imminent” they ran approaching the transformer and not having alerted when EDF he had become convinced that at least two of the fugitives were inside.
“His priority was not to ward off the danger, but to catch the two individuals that had seen crossing the fence, “ emphasize the judges, while pointing to his credit, as ” everything happened in a very short time and while he was engaged in the pursuit a group of young people suspected of having committed an offense. “ The same criticism of dereliction of duty of support is retained against Stephanie Klein, who has not responded to message playback Sebastian Gaillemin warning that teenagers were “in the process to step over to go to the EDF website.”
The suite is a long criminal tunnel. The prosecution requires the dismissal in favor of the two policemen, judges pass on, and in October 2010 signed the order for reference of the two officers before the criminal court. However, they differ the crime of “endangering” and retain only the qualification of “non-assistance to a person in danger.” The prosecutor of Bobigny appealed, the investigating chamber of the Court of Appeal of Paris is entered. In April 2011, she set aside the order of the judges and pronounces a dismissal
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This judgment is broken in October 2012 by the Court of Cassation, which refers the case to the Court of Appeal of Rennes. Again, the public prosecutor supports the dismissal by considering, as the defense of two policemen, that they have never been sure of the presence of three young men in the transformer. The investigating chamber Rennes Appeal Court on the contrary the same analysis of the case that the first judges of Bobigny and decides to return Sébastien Gaillemin and Stephanie Klein before the criminal court. Ten years have passed, the law was fully exercised. The meaning of the trial, he, it is probably a little lost.
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