“Nothing justifies the behaviour that took place in Paris this evening when protests on public streets are banned to protect everyone’s health.”
The protesters used slogans from the American protest movement to call for justice for Adama Traore, whose death four years ago has been a rallying cause against police brutality in France.
Sporadic clashes broke out near the city’s main ring road, with stones thrown at the police, who responded by firing rubber bullets.Interior Minister Christophe Castaner responded by saying that “violence has no place in a democracy”. One of the three arresting officers has told investigators that they pinned Traore down with their combined body weight.
Instead, the experts found Traore died of heart failure possibly brought on by underlying health conditions in a context of “intense stress” and physical exertion, as well as the presence of tetrahydrocannabinol — the active ingredient of cannabis — in his body. The contradictory medical reports also echoes the case of George Floyd, whose preliminary autopsy said he died from pre-existing heart problems, while an autopsy arranged by his family found he died of asphyxiation from sustained pressure.‘Not violent, nor racist’
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