A young black man died in France four years ago in police custody. Now thousands protested in his name

Approximately 20,000 people in Paris have defied the ban against public meeting on Tuesday to protest the death of Adama Traoré, a black man who died in police hands in 2016. The protests were sparked by an independent probe Traoré family was given orders finally released on Tuesday; It was found that his death was caused by the violent arrest by the police. The protesters gathered, leading to Marseille, Lyon and Lille, held signs in English and French, saying: “I can not breathe” and “White matter” lives. They called leaders, an end to police brutality. More protests are planned for Saturday, according to the means of social communication. The demonstrations of solidarity with the American protesters go, the meeting had “been killed since George Floyd on May 25th These protests are not just a reaction that occurs in the United States. [They are] a response to Traoré, police violence , which took place during the blockade and the brutal history of hand agents in France, “says Mathieu Rigouste, author of the dominance policière a book in 2012, the current French police practices supported are rooted in the colonial period. It is no surprise that the police brutality in the United States resonates with minorities in France, demanding accountability and transparency. “Today we are not just talking about the struggle of the Traoré family. And ‘the fight for everyone. If we struggle to George Floyd for Adama Traore fight,” said Sister Assa, which organized the protest. According to a report by the independent authority that are relevant to human rights in France, young Arabs and blacks 20 times more frequently stopped their white counterparts. While there are no official statistics on how many deaths caused by police brutality, beating some estimates that the number has doubled in the last five years, with an average of 25 to 35 deaths a year. In 2019, the number of investigations has been in police violence Inspectorate générale de la Police Nationale-on guard police officer dog rose 20%. Although France has experienced much fewer than the United States fatal police shootings relatively made France a few steps of the combat police brutality. In France, citizens may be subject to legal action if they continue to discuss taking video of police officers and politicians, both of racial Police is also a problem. On Wednesday, the spokesman for the government of President Emmanuel Macron Sibeth Ndiaye said, not “I say that we are not able to believe that France is a racist country.” She has added that the United States and France are “comparable … historically organized to our societies.” But unlike many protesters and experts. “Both companies the United States and France, the capitalist, racist and patriarchal,” says Rigouste. “They are built around them.” Here’s more on the ongoing protests and the history of police violence in France. Who was Adama Traoré? Adama Traoré was a Franco-Malian man who died on July 19 in police custody in 2016, after a brutal crash. Traoré was celebrating his 24th birthday with his older brother Bagui in Beaumont-sur-Oise, a cop Undercover cities were stopped north of Paris, as the two men two. Traoré is afraid officials would not have his papers on him and had put him to the station for longer controls, according to his family and runs into a nearby apartment. When the three policemen enter the apartment, they say jumping on Traoré. Even though an official says only he and his colleagues “necessary force” used, he said, that the three of them had their body weight on Traoré back. Witnesses said Traoré did not resist arrest. No right to breathe under pressure, Traore told the officials: “I can not breathe” At that time, Traoré was put into a police car, he was unconscious and urination. While officials say they have taken him into the recovery position, tell the firefighters who were called for medical assistance at the station, they found no one to help him face down. emergency departments of France have declared dead Traoré 7:00 to around 22.00, the Traoré family was given the news of his death three hours after his death. (It is said that an officer had assured them that he was fine, and another said their Traoré was in the hospital). When the mother and the brothers became emotional, saying that police have used tear gas to disperse them. The exact circumstances surrounding the death Traoré, refers to an ongoing battle between the French authorities and the Traoré family and activists who claim that he was a government cover-up. A first autopsy revealed that Traoré died of a heart attack and severe blood poisoning. But many, especially the Traoré family were skeptical of the report because Traoré had no pre-existing diseases. The suspicion has grown, as authorities allegedly offered to send the body to Mali for a funeral and to create passports to relatives who have none. The family requested a second autopsy, which was choking were the direct cause of death. But the three doctors to monitor the investigation said the suffocation was caused by a heart defect, and insisted that violence was not the cause. For this to happen protests now? Two days after the protests took place on May 26 in Minneapolis after the death of George Floyd, officials in France, the arrested Traoré exempted from a medical report were ordered by a judge in matters entrusted. On Tuesday, June 2 order an independent autopsy by the family found that the death was caused by Traoré arrest techniques. Assa Traoré sister, a teacher of 35 years, called for protests to be held on Tuesday at the court in Paris 17th arrondissement. “What happens in the United States today, has brought to light what happened in France” Assa Traoré sister told the protesters. “We have to stop racism is happening here in France.” More than 20,000 people joined the march in the northeast of Paris, according to police, while organizers put the number at 40,000. Protesters carried signs “Black Lives Matter”, the name of George Floyd and Adama Traoré, and the words “I can not breathe”, pointing to the similar technique, for both men killed. “Remember [The protests] a way for them based on what the French history of colonialism and the slave trade,” says Hajer, 28-year-old protester NOW asked to only use his name for professional reasons. “We can not be restarted if we raise these issues not.” What is the history of police brutality in France? There is a long history of police brutality against black people and Arab in France, activists said. Since 1970, activist organizations like the labor movement Arab racist forms of police said. But police abuses continued. “This is an extension of police violence that increasingly affect everything,” says Rigouste. “But it is more difficult to use against certain population groups, especially people of color and poor population groups that are separated.” In 2005, Bouna Traore, 15 and Zyed Benna, 17, electrocuted when a power substation in a Paris suburb races after being chased by police. A third boy, Muhittin Altun, but survived suffered severe burns. The incident set off demonstrations throughout France, with demonstrators attention to police brutality and inequality to draw in the poorest suburbs. Vehicles and buildings were set ablaze and thousands of protesters were arrested. The protests led President Jacques Chirac in 20 years a state of emergency for the first time to call. It took three weeks. In 2015, the small-Sebastien officers were acquitted Gaillemin and Stephanie accusations. The police violence in France was calling for national and international organizations for human rights. France was the first country in the European Union established by the European Court of Human Rights for the treatment of Ahmed Selmouni 1999 French police guilty of torture, who was beaten and sexually abused by police officers during questioning in 1991. In 2009 Amnesty International has attacked as “a de facto model impunity,” warned by French police officers. Although France prohibits the collection of data based on ethnicity making it difficult to racial profiling model-the Defenseur identify des droits, French non-governmental institution in charge of protecting citizens’ rights, issued a report in 2017, denounced the practices profiling races. Last year, Michelle Bachelet, known as High Commissioner of the United Nations human rights for a “full investigation” into excessive use of force by French police officers. The recent cases of police violence have brought the issue into the mainstream. In 2015, Remi Fraisse, a 21-year-old white environmentalists, was killed by a grenade thrown by the National Gendarmerie, while building a dam to protest. When the yellow vest movement in November broke in 2018 and people took to the streets a general dissatisfaction with their standard down to experience police brutality expressing led to the loss of 24 eyes, five hands, 315 head injuries and two dead, according to a 2019 study by the Journal French Mediapart. In January this year Cedric Chouviat, a delivery driver 42 years, died after holding him to the ground in Paris the police. In the same month, he said the French president Emmanuel Macron, asking for the government “the greatest ethics of our police and gendarmes,” plans to develop a proposal on how to improve the code of ethics for officers. But he added that he did not want “to hurt the credibility and dignity” of the officers. A few months later, on March 8, young feminist activists the international day of the march woman attacked by the police and taken down steps through her hair. For some, the recent protests suggest the awareness of police brutality and racism in France is growing – and are cautiously optimistic. “There have already been large movements that a lot of people, but gained nothing has changed,” said Hajer. “What matters to me is that a lot of people who used to does not matter now. People who do not speak pure, speak now.” How has the COVID-19 pandemic situation? The protests follow a series of violent incidents by police checkpoint measures to enforce. France has implemented a strict blockade on March 17 to curb the spread of COVID-19 More than 160,000 police were on duty to ensure that the block was observed. (Blocking measures began on 11 can be loosened with some schools and opening businesses and fewer restrictions on the movement.) Video flooded the heavier police presence in poorer and disproportionate use of black communities strong neighborhoods and Arabs turned social media. In a video, the police consider painful Sofiane El Naoufel Allaki have forgotten a 21-year-old Amazon workers on the floor for his release form mandatory locking. Naoufel El Allaki said post-traumatic stress disorder as a result immediately and should open watchdog organization, has called for a police investigation. Police brutality has been a topic even bigger discussion when artists Camelia Jordana said blacks and Arabs on a TV show, 23 Christophe Castaner May during Lockdown “massacred” will of police officers, the French Interior Minister has took to Twitter, Jordana called the words “false and shameful” and a police union filed a lawsuit against the singer. But Assa Traoré reinforced Embassy Jordana of # MoiAussiJ’AiPeurDevantLaPolice start (I’m also afraid of the police) on Twitter, where users on social media shared their instances of police violence. “And ‘in these forms of resistance that there is hope,” says Rigouste. “He was born another company in this resistance.”
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