Monday, May 18, 2015

Zyed and Bouna: after the acquittal of the police officers, anger – The Obs

“I’m disgusted, disappointed, disgusted, police are untouchable”. On leaving the hearing room of the criminal court of Rennes, Adel Benna, the elder brother of Zyed, let speak its bitterness. Minutes earlier, the two policemen continued for 10 years to duty to rescue after the drama of Clichy-sous-Bois were relaxed under cries of anger.

“It’s a shame “shouted a woman, denouncing” a decade of police impunity. ” “Families do not turn the page immediately,” said Samir Mihi, head of a family support association. These were isolated with their lawyers in a room after the announcement of the judgment, before leaving the scene discreetly by another exit to avoid the media.

Previously, Mr. Jean-Pierre Mignard, the one of their two lawyers, had described the acquittal decision “shocking for the civil parties”, evoking even a “legal apartheid”.

We will appeal, “but unable to do so at criminal, “the case can be retried on the civilian side,” he said, and “if necessary, and if necessary, we will go down before the criminal chamber of the Supreme Court.”
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10 years later in Clichy-sous-Bois: “Like it was yesterday”

“Dead for nothing”, this is the expression that came back most often in the mouths of support for victims, up to several politicians from the left on social networks:

The court rejected in its conclusions most of the arguments made by counsel for the plaintiffs in this case, joining the Crown’s position that had required the acquittal at the close of the hearing held from 16 to 20 March.

The court considered the review of the facts that neither Sebastien Gaillemin, police at the scene nor Stephanie Klein, who was the standard of the radio, could not have ” clear and real consciousness of imminent peril “for young people, said the president, Nicolas Leger.

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Minute by minute, the fatal stalking Zyed and Bouna

Clashes in Bobigny

Monday in Clichy-sous-Bois, “no incidents” had been reported earlier this afternoon, according to a police source. However in the early evening, about 200 people gathered in the quiet before the High Court of Bobigny to express their “disgust” after the acquittal of two police officers.

Along with the relatives of the victims and behind a large banner “The police murders, justice pays” , representatives of organizations of struggle against police violence (“ Stop ethnic profiling”, “our Emergency Police murders” , “party of the Indigenous of the Republic”) mix came the memory of Rémi Fraisse, killed by the security forces on 26 October on the dam Sivens to that of and Zyed Benna Bouna Traoré.

(Jacques Brinon / AP / SIPA)

(AGNÈS COUDURIER / AFP)

First good child, the atmosphere of the gathering – up to 400 people the evening according to the police – will tend to suit the confrontation with riot police brigades have seen several journalists

This gathering, mixing inhabitants of neighborhoods and committed activists against violence. police, started around 19 hours in court and was dispersed by police two hours later, in an atmosphere “a little bit tense,” said a prefectural source. There were no injuries or arrests of protesters, she said. Stories and photos circulating on social networks Monday night yet testified to the violence of the clashes.

One hundred people have also gathered in Lyon chanting “no justice, no peace “while some 180 people demonstrated under protection before the Toulouse courthouse. According to a journalist present on the spot, police reportedly made an arrest, information for unconfirmed hour.

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