“Truth and Justice for Jean-Paul”: a white march in memory of motorist killed by police in Sevran

The procession, which wandered more than two hours, stopped in front of the traffic light where the motorist was reached a bullet drawn by a policeman.

Le Monde with AFP

They were a little more than 300 to claim “Truth and Justice for Jean-Paul”. A week after the death of a 33-year-old Guyana father, killed by a policeman during a road check, a white walk was organized on Saturday, April 2 between Aulnay-sous-Bois, where the parents of the victim reside , and Sevran, where did the victim originate.

The procession started at the foot of the Cité du Gros-Willow by a brief speaking of the thirtiented companion. This one called “calm” and asked in tears “respect for his memory”. The cameras of the journalists were not welcome in the ranks of the procession, the family fearing “retaliation” on the part of the police, said Aié Alimi, one of his lawyers. Some media have been expelled by neighborhood youth.

The procession, which wandered more than two hours, stopped in front of the traffic light where John Paul was reached a bullet pulled by a policeman of the anti-crime brigade (bac) of Aulnay- undergrowth, which wanted to control it while driving a stolen vehicle.

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The official, indicted for “voluntary violence who resulted in death without intent to give it” Saturday, asserts to have been “unbalanced” during his check after the car restarted, “felt in a state of self-defense “and” have fire for that reason, “Bobigny’s parquet said. For m e alimi, “the policeman has no reason to shoot, there is no endanger, and does not wear a police armband”.

The victim was an independent driver who worked with a parcel delivery provider. Depending on the family, the van “was not stolen” and “there was a dispute with the person for whom he worked, who refused to pay it (…), he kept the van while waiting to be paid”.

The death of this inhabitant of Beaudottes caused five consecutive nights of violence in several communes of Seine-Saint-Denis, neighboring neighborhood bordering. In Sevran, Aulnay-sous-Bois and Tremblay-en-France, popular cities located north-east from Paris, vehicles and garbage cans have been burned and projectiles thrown on the police, without being injured.

/Media reports.