Ten years after the drama of Clichy, justice makes its decision – TF1

After the drama of Clichy-sous-Bois that claimed the lives of two young people in an EDF site in 2005, the Criminal Court of Rennes will end Monday at ten outstanding year in deciding whether the two police officers charged in this case to duty to rescue are guilty or not. After a week of hearing on March 16 to 20, which took place in a calm atmosphere, far from the three weeks of rioting that the news item had started in the French suburbs for three weeks, the Rennes court will decide. An expected decision by both victims’ families by the police officers concerned.

This decision may be final if the court shall discharge, required by the prosecution and by the defense claimed: no calls will be indeed possible. The police, after an internal investigation, were never punished and even received at the hearing supported the judicial officer of the State, who shall on conviction potential damages and costs claimed by families, or almost 1.6 million euros. But “if it is a conviction, there will be action,” warned Daniel Merchat, counsel for the officials.

“If they go on EDF site, I would not give much of their skin “

During a chase between youths and police, Sébastien Gaillemin, peacekeeper affected at the time the font of proximity, had seen two “silhouettes” step over a fence delineating cemetery, and come into a small timber in which five meters away, a wall forbade access to the EDF website. “If they fall on the EDF site, I would not give much of their skin”, he had dropped on the police radio, listening which was his colleague Stephanie Klein, then police trainee, also accused not having reacted.
The two policemen, who did not know the scene, appeared before the court, very moved, facing the victims’ families demand answers come but also an admission of guilt. Civil parties expect the court’s decision “the recognition of the duty to rescue,” said Jean-Pierre Mignard, one of two civil party lawyers. “For us, it is no doubt”, he assured. For civil party lawyers, Sebastien Gaillemin knew that three young people put to flight 10 minutes earlier by other police officers had entered the EDF site where on 27 October 2005, at 6:11 p.m., Bouna Traore, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17, were electrocuted dead.
After a chase with police, they had climbed a door to hide in a local concrete housing a reactor, a very dangerous device on the EDF website of Clichy-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), as pointed out a danger warning on the side of the room. Only their comrade Muhittin Altun, 17, had survived, burned on 10% of the body. The drama took place about 30 minutes after the police left the site. Mr. Gaillemin assured the audience checking, twice, there was nobody in the EDF site before leaving, and be at that time some young people were not . “Not realizing the danger, it can not be criticized for not having acted to address them,” considered the Deputy Prosecutor Delphine Dewailly during his closing argument. For the two police officers are convicted, the court must consider that they were aware of a real and immediate threat to young people, and especially that they have omitted to alert the emergency services. The two officials could face up to five years in prison and 75,000 euros fine.