This Saturday, they denounced the Police. Several hundred demonstrators marched in Paris on Saturday, to cries of “we want justice” and “stop dismissals!” “, to denounce what according to them constitutes” state violence and police violence “. A demonstration after clashes in Paris the day before, in the context of the protest against the pension reform.
In addition to the prohibition of certain techniques of arrest or checks on the facies, “we ask that justice have the courage to condemn the police”, explained Fatou Dieng, sister of Lamine Dieng, Franco Senegalese of 25 years. died in 2007 in a police car, after being immobilized and pressed to the ground while resisting arrest in the Parisian district of Ménilmontant. Fatou Dieng demonstrated as a member of the Mutual Aid, Truth and Justice Network, a collective of bereaved families who called for this annual march “against state violence and systemic racism”, from Place de la République to Stalingrad.
On the banner at the head of the procession were presented the portraits of Baba Traoré, a young undocumented Malian who died in 2008 after jumping into the Marne to escape police control, and that of Mamadou Marega, a Malian without papers who died after Taser fire in 2010 during his arrest in Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine). There were also those of Tina Sebaa, Youcef Mahdi and Bakari Tandia, who, according to their relatives, would all have died in suspicious conditions and involving the police.
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“Two years after the death of my son Yanis”, in April 2021, “I still don’t know what happened”, explained, moved, his mother, Valérie Paris. “If he was in the wrong, I would accept it, if the police were, they must accept it too but, above all, they owe us the truth! “, did she say.
Behind her, “Yellow Vests” swelled the ranks of the procession, as well as collectives against immigration law or the newly formed one named “Stop police violence in Saint-Denis” (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Dozens of members of the Network for the General Strike, bringing together employees from different sectors and wanting to “bring together struggles”, also took part in the march. They chanted “Down, down with 49.3″, in reference to the use of this article of the Constitution to pass the disputed pension reform.