Paris Protest Against Police Violence: Latest Updates on Youssouf Traoré’s Case

2023-07-09 11:45:37

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. Youssouf Traoré, 29, was placed in police custody for violence once morest a person holding public authority and rebellion. His police custody, lifted because of his hospitalization, might then resume.

About 2,000 people gathered in Paris on Saturday despite the ban from the police headquarters behind Assa Traoré, a figure in the fight once morest police violence, in memory of his brother Adama, who died shortly following his arrest by gendarmes in July 2016. According to a source familiar with the matter, Youssouf Traoré was accused of having “striked” 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. 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 – provoked convictions from several left-wing elected officials on social networks.

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