No charges filed over death of black French man in custody
07 September 2023
Seven years after the death of Adama Traoré, a young black Frenchman who died in custody in the summer of 2016, the court concluded that the three officers responsible for his arrest had not committed illegitimate violence. While the circumstances of his death are still disputed, his family have denounced efforts to protect the police officers and made the case a symbol of police brutality. Assa Traoré, the victim's sister and now an icon of the French Black Lives Matter movement, organised a rally on Tuesday to protest what she describes as "a shame for France and the French justice system."
 | Melissa Chemam The Adama Traoré affaire is a highly mediatised case that became the symbol of the police brutality debate in France. Despite the lack of clarity around his death, it remains today a rallying cry for those protesting police brutality in France, especially as the country grapples with the aftermath of unrest in late June and early July following the police killing of a French teenager of North African descent at a traffic stop in a Paris suburb. |
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