Sevran: misunderstanding after death of a man, killed by a police officer

The victim, a family father who had had trouble with justice in the past, had reintened well, according to his entourage. Urban violence broke out between young people and police in the Beaudottes district.

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It was a “guy well”, “a father who had tiddled cars” and “trying to get out of it”. It is the portrait that many inhabitants of the Beaudottes district, in Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis), draw up from Jean-Paul, killed a bullet by a policeman of the anti-crime brigade (Bac), Saturday, March 26 . The man of thirty years was driving a stolen van. The exact circumstances of the drama remain fuzzy. Hairways erupted in the town of Sevran and the neighboring town of Aulnay-sous-Bois the two nights that followed.

A dozen burned vehicles, inflamed barricades, a bus from RATP stolen and burned, firebar, jets of projectiles on the forces of order … Sixteen people, including four minors, were arrested during The weekend, the Ministry of the Interior indicated. Of these, three were referred to immediate appearance, six cases were transmitted to the prosecutor’s office and a classified. Six custody for degradation and violence against the police were under way Monday, said Bobigny’s prosecutor. Tuesday, Gérald Darmanin said in a tweet that the police had again apprehended thirteen people on Monday night.

Weekend events revive tensions between young people and forces of the order that undermine the daily life of this city of some 10,000 inhabitants.

“It’s very tense here today, it’s better to leave,” alert a young man in scooter. At its side, one inhabitant compares the facts with the death of ADAMA Traoré, young man of 24 years dead on the soil of the Persian barracks (Val-d’Oise), in July 2016, following an arrest Musculated by the gendarmes: “a burr, another, another policeman who had to panic, and still police unions who, to cover themselves, dirty the memory of death by coming out his criminal record, he fulminizes. He Getting out, I tell you! It was behind all that! “

” One shot “

“It’s true,” said the victim’s lawyer, “Sup> E Steeve Ruben, who has been Jean-Paul for about ten years. He had passed his heavyweight license, mounted A company, does training in Canada, he had found his way. If he had a lot of trouble with the police, for flight cases, he was no longer justice, it was two to three years. ‘He no longer had any procedure in progress. “

Man was an entrepreneur in the transportation sector that “worked young people from the neighborhood”, ensures an acquaintance, “JP had not stolen the van” but had “made the mistake” to “seize it” He himself “to one of his associates (subcontractor or client company) as a result of a financial dispute. “Nobody knows exactly what happened with the official, but it is delirious to get there, the police could have stopped it otherwise than pulling on it”, blows a trader from the city .

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