2023-06-29 14:55:37
Guinea seeks justice when the body of a young man killed in France by a policeman is returned
The body of the 19-year-old Guinean boy killed during a road check on June 14 in southwestern France was received Wednesday evening in Conakry by his family and the authorities who demanded that justice be done, a observed an AFP journalist.
“It is with great emotion that we receive the body of young Alhoussein. The Head of State had promised that the body would be brought back here to Guinea so that there would be a dignified burial, which is done by the grace of God,” Foreign Minister Morissanda Kouyaté said on his arrival. at the airport.
“The conditions under which he died will be elucidated. Guinea wants justice to do all its work in France, to elucidate the conditions in which he died,” he added.
It is “a loved one who has just left, a darling child”, said the father of the young man killed, Fodé Camara, who thanked the authorities for standing alongside the family.
The French policeman, a 52-year-old brigadier, author of the fatal shot was charged on Wednesday with intentional homicide, “with a ban on possession of a weapon and a ban on professional exercise”, announced the public prosecutor of Angoulême. .
In the early morning of June 14, in Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente, in the suburbs of Angoulême, Alhoussein Camara was fatally shot by a police officer while trying to escape arrest during a traffic check.
According to the first elements of the investigation, while two police vehicles were trying to block him for checks, the young man had engaged reverse gear and then moved forward, hitting the legs of a policeman, who then shot a ball.
The relatives of Mr. Camara quickly denounced a “blunder”.
Arrived in France in 2018, the young Guinean worked in a logistics base of supermarkets, where he went, according to his relatives. He was unknown to justice, according to the prosecution.
Between 800 and 1,000 people took part in a march after his death, demanding justice, in the presence of the Guinean ambassador to France, Sinkoun Sylla.
This case echoes the death on Tuesday in Nanterre, near Paris, of Nahel, a young 17-year-old motorist, killed by a policeman while trying to escape a traffic check. The tragedy led to two nights of violence across France.
With AFP
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