Guadeloupe: Elie Domota, leader of LKP collective, complains for police violence

Elie Domota had been arrested and placed in custody for a few hours, during a manifestation against the sanitary pass and the immunization obligation on December 30.

Le Monde

Elie Domota Lawyers, LKP Collective Leader (Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon, “Collective Against Outer Operations”) Opposite the Immunization Obligation, Thursday, January 6, filed a complaint for “violence in Meeting per person custodian of the public authority “during his interpellation.

Elie Domota had been arrested and placed in custody for a few hours, during a manifestation against the sanitary pass and the vaccine obligation on December 30. He will appear before the court on April 7th.

In this complaint, the France-Presse Agency (AFP), Elie Domota’s lawyers denounce “violent, humiliating and inic aggression on the part of the police”. The document also refers to “a tracenard” and the fact that the union leader has been “gasped in the face”.

“Elie Domota appears clearly targeted by the Maurchausée, he falls into a real wait-appetizers, he is jostled,” says AFP Sarah Aristide, Mr. Domota’s lawyer. According to her, the 54-year-old man would have been “humiliated, arbitrarily arrested” and “was stuck in a proceeding, while the victim was”.

“Stone jets”

Elie Domota is summoned on April 7th in court for “voluntary violence on the custodian of the public authority without ITT [temporary incapacity for work]”.

“We ask for the opening of judicial information to identify one and the others, to see who did what, put a name on the faces, identify their degree of responsibility, because we are persuaded that they have not acted spontaneously and disinterested in the climate that we know “, denounces the lawyer.

On pictures of local channel 10, broadcast on social networks and deleted shortly after, Elie Domota appears on the day of the event moving on a road with other protesters grabbing barriers . The images show the forces of order trying to stop their progress with tear gas bombs.

On the following images, demonstrators force the passage and Elie Domota appears on the ground, the gendarmes handcuffing him in the back. A source within the gendarmerie then informed AFP that “Stone Jets” caused the use of tear gas.

/Media reports.