How died Adama traore, July 19, 2016, his 24th birthday, at Beaumont-sur-Oise (Val-d’Oise), during his arrest by the gendarmes? Me Yassine Bouzrou, the lawyer for the victim’s family has just sent the investigating judge a new expertise carried out by several international experts including Mickael Baden, the American forensic doctor who had carried out an independent autopsy on George Floyd, this African American who died on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis. According to their conclusions, Adama Traoré would have died due to positional asphyxia
during his arrest by the gendarmes. And not because of his previous pathologies.
Eighteen different doctors
This is not the first second opinion produced by the family of the deceased. In June, another professor of medicine had reached the same conclusions. So we have eighteen different doctors who believe that the gendarmes caused the death of Adama Traoré. My clients therefore ask that the investigating judges respect the law
, insists Me Bouzrou. Namely that the gendarmes are indicted and tried.
However, in this case, the judges themselves asked for official expertise. They concluded that Adama Traoré had not died of positional asphyxia, but cardiogenic edema
, specified one of them in June 2020. However, last month, Belgian experts asked by the judge, estimated that the young man was dead “From a heat stroke” which could have been aggravated by the maneuvers of the gendarmes. The strategy is always the same, to make the Traoré case the equivalent of the Floyd case in the United States. What is intellectually dishonest
, told France Info Rodolphe Bosselut, lawyer for two of the gendarmes.
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