2023-07-09 15:52:35
Twenty-four hours after his muscular arrest during the prohibited demonstration in memory of his brother Adama, Youssouf Traoré was released from the hospital on Sunday at midday, his supporters now a rally in front of a police station for another man arrested.
Youssouf Traoré appears with his right eye swollen and the sleeve of the t-shirt torn in a video published at the beginning of the afternoon on Twitter by the account “The truth for Adama”. According to this account, authenticated by AFP, the ventral tackle he suffered during his arrest caused him “a broken nose, head trauma with eye contusion, thoracic, abdominal and lumbar contusions revealing”.
Complaint this Sunday
The Adama committee which manages this account affirms that it will file a complaint this Sunday “to denounce this serious violence”. Contacted by AFP, her sister Assa said she was going with Youssouf Traoré to the 5th arrondissement police station to collect her belongings.
The police custody of Youssouf Traoré, arrested on Saturday during a tough arrest during the rally in Paris in memory of his brother Adama, had also been lifted in the morning, we learned from the Paris prosecutor’s office. The images of his arrest filmed by several witnesses – we see him resisting then being tackled and held face to the ground by several police officers – provoked condemnations from several left-wing elected officials on social networks.
According to a police source, he was injured in one eye during his arrest, and felt unwell in the premises of the police station, which led to his transfer to hospital. On Saturday, another police source said he was taken to hospital but not admitted, and was taken back to the police station. This source indicated on Sunday that this was a mistake.
Violent arrest
Youssouf Traoré, 29, was placed in police custody for violence against a person holding public authority and rebellion. His police custody, lifted because of his hospitalization, could then resume. According to a source familiar with the matter, Youssouf Traoré was accused of having “dealed a blow” to a police commissioner at the start of the rally, Place de la République.
According to the police version, he was recognized later in the demonstration, and arrested for these facts. On the images of the arrest, muscular and filmed by several witnesses, we see him resisting then being tackled and held face to the ground by several police officers. We also see a woman being violently thrown to the ground by a policeman, and journalists assaulted by the police. One of them announced his intention to seize the IGPN, the “police of the police”, to file a complaint against two police officers from the BRAV-M, the motorized brigade for the repression of violent action.
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The associations, unions and political parties classified on the left (among which LFI, EELV, CGT and Solidaires) at the origin of the “citizen marches” against the police violence organized the day before in France, demanded in a press release on Sunday the “release without condition nor prosecution”, of Youssouf Traoré and a second man, “activist of the working-class neighborhoods of long date”, also arrested during the Parisian rally.
Aurore Bergé criticizes an “obvious provocation”
The press release calls for “massive” mobilization on Sunday at 2 p.m. in front of the police station of the 1st arrondissement of Paris, where this second man is being kept in custody, according to Eric Coquerel. The organizations are also calling for the abandonment of the legal proceedings announced by the Prefecture of Police against Assa Traoré, “organizer” of the Parisian rally banned according to the authorities. “This call for mobilization was widely supported by trade unions, associations and politicians. The responsibility therefore lies with everyone. We will not let ourselves be done”, is it also written in the press release calling for a new “wide mobilization” against police violence, next Saturday in Paris.
About 2,000 people gathered in Paris on Saturday despite the ban from the police headquarters behind Assa Traoré, a figure in the fight against police violence, in memory of his brother Adama, who died shortly after his arrest by gendarmes in July 2016. Several left-wing elected officials who participated in this march despite the ban were quickly moved by the questioning of Youssouf Traoré “It’s a shame. There was no reason. Everything was going very well, ”tweeted Sandrine Rousseau (EELV) in particular. “An additional persecution for the Traoré family”, lamented Eric Coquerel (LFI).
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The presence of elected officials at a banned gathering was an “obvious provocation”, criticized in return the president of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, Aurore Bergé, on CNews on Sunday. “I am appalled to see elected officials of the Nation, sporting the tricolor scarf, mute and smiling while hearing demonstrators chanting” everyone hates the police “”, tweeted Yaël Braun-Pivet, the president of the ‘Assembly. “To guarantee disrespect and hatred towards our police forces is to knowingly damage the Republic”, added the elected Renaissance.
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