(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - political, Zyed and
Bouna are indeed "dead for nothing" by Redac (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]
The judgment of police officers involved in the case of the death of Zyed Benna and Bouna
Traore could have been an opportunity to show that police impunity can sometimes be
undermined. Well not the same. The criminal court of Rennes has decided: the two police
officers indicted for "duty to rescue" have a final release. ---- "This case, these are
kids running because they see the police and police running because she sees children
running. And the reality of this country in some quarters is that the fact that we run
when we see the police is a criminal offense. " Thus spoke Mr. Emmanuel Tordjman, one of
the lawyers of the families of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré March 19, before the Criminal
Court of Rennes[1]. ---- His colleague, Jean-Pierre Mignard, for its part had recalled the
political context of the time: the numbers policy, required by the Interior Ministry -
under the direction of Nicolas Sarkozy and Dominique de Villepin - who demanded arrest of
arrest to show that the police "was".
It is this policy that has been accused police Gaillemin Sebastien and Stephanie Klein's
"endangered person to non-assistance" when they saw the two children of Clichy-sous-Bois
entering a power substation, October 27, 2005 .
What then was the state of mind of the officer Sébastien Gaillemin, who watched the scene?
Tordjman asked me. "He wants to challenge, it will not save. This is what characterizes
the voluntary abstention when the danger is imminent and real. Indifference guilty police
officers, that is the case! "
A relaxed, pleaded Me Mignard, would give a very bad signal to all of the police
institution. "Families tell you, we then take into consideration that we do not consider.
Look at us, we do not see. Listen to us, that we listen ever. There is better evidence
that integration of these families who have been waiting ten years justice. You need to
both condemn and reconcile. The French should know that from where we come, we are
entitled to by law. "
The criminal court has ruled. The police impunity can continue.
TEN YEARS AGO
"A week of revolt against social injustice. " The tragic death of Bouna and Zyed led to a
wave of riots throughout France. Text AL 5 November 2005.
"No to the state of emergency! No to colonial war! " President Chirac had then declared a
state of emergency to "maintain order" in popular neighborhoods: the never-seen since the
war in Algeria.
Popular Area: Five years after the riots, what has changed? An article in Alternative
Libertaire in December 2010.
[1] Pascale Robert-Diard, "Zyed and Bouna: ten years of anger at the bar" , blog
Chronicles of judicial Lemonde.fr
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Zyed-et-Bouna-sont-bel-et-bien
