Death of Rémi Fraisse: state condemned by administrative justice to compensate family

The Toulouse Administrative Tribunal has recognized “a fault without fault” in the drama in 2014. The Court of Cassation had confirmed a non-place for the gendarme that launched the grenade.

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The State has been sentenced on Thursday, November 25, to pay compensation to the family of Rémi Fraisse, demonstrating killed in a plot of mobile gendarmes in the Tarn, in 2014. The Toulouse Administrative Court has recognized ” a liability without fault of the state “.

“The administrative court […] compensates the rights of the victim of their moral prejudice up to a total of 46,400 euros,” writes the court in a statement.

After having exhausted the remedies in criminal justice, the family of Rémi Fraisse had turned to administrative justice. In March 2021, the Court of Cassation confirmed the non-place for the gendarme which launched the Offensive Granada of type of-F1 on the young man, during violent clashes on the construction of the controversial water restraint of Sivens. A few days after the death of Rémi Fraisse, the government had suspended the use of these grenades by the police, before definitively prohibiting several months later.

The European Court of Rights of The man seized

“It is a question of implementing an action so that the state, at the highest level, here the prefect and, through his intermediary, the Minister of the Interior, be considered responsible,” had declared to mid-November one of the young man’s family lawyers, Etienne Christmas.

“We persist in saying that there is a fault of the State and that Rémi Fraisse, who was totally peaceful, was not covered by this order of the order of the Order,” said the lawyer of the family, deploring the “sharing of responsibility” requested by the public rapporteur.

The family of Rémi Fraisse – his father, his mother, his sister and his two grandmothers – had requested 75,000 euros each in repair of their moral harm.

“It is a sum that we asked for a symbolic basis, since anyway [the death of a child] does not price,” had recalled M e Christmas, judging “ridiculous” the sum three or four times proposed to the court by the public rapporteur. But it is especially in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), seizure of the file, that the young man’s family today places the most hope.

/Media reports.