The sister of Adama Traoré, who died in 2016 after his arrest by gendarmes, came to testify in Geneva on November 15 before the committee for the elimination of racial discrimination. It was the target, then, many defamatory and threatening messages.
by Julia Pascual
It is a shadow on the board, itself not very brilliant. Friday, December 2, the United Nations Committee (UN) for the elimination of racial discrimination (CERD) made public its observations on France’s policy towards its minorities. A periodic exercise, under the 1965 international convention on the elimination of discrimination, during which he worried about the “magnitude” of racial hatred speeches, especially in the media and on social networks.
Unpublished fact, in the midst of generalist comments, the CERD spoke on the personal case of Assa Traoré, the sister of Adama Traoré, a young man who died in 2016 after his arrest by gendarmes. Assa Traoré has become a figure in the denunciation of police violence. Coming on November 15 in Geneva to be heard by CERD experts, like a Kyrielle of civil society representatives, ministries or independent authorities, she was subsequently the subject of many ” intimidation and threat messages online. The CERD requests France that it pursues in particular the police officers on Twitter of these defamatory messages and threats.
In the ten -page public document which collect “concerns and recommendations”, the CERD addresses the poor quality of the reception of asylum seekers and unaccompanied foreign minors, the lack of training of public officials at The fight against discrimination, discrimination of Roma and Travelers, difficulties in accessing children in Guyana and New Caledonia, the racial or ethnic profiling of police controls or the lack of monitoring of Complaints for police violence.
In this regard, the Committee focuses on the Adama Traoré affair and recommends that France “to conclude the investigation [on its death] so that the officials are brought to justice and sanctioned in an appropriate manner”. Above all, the committee is concerned about the fact that his sister, Assa Traoré, is “victim of defamatory messages and online threats, in particular in the Twitter account of the police unions”. He “urges” France to “guarantee [his] security” and to “initiate criminal proceedings against state agents who are associated with these messages of intimidation and threats”.
tweets of two police unions
The facts denounced by the CERD occurred after the arrival of M traoré in Geneva on November 15 to be heard by CERD. The NGO International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) alerted the French ambassador to the UN, Jérôme Bonnafont, from November 24. In a letter from which MO12345LEMONDE has learned, it enjoins France to protect Assa Traoré from any act of “intimation and reprisals”.
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