Investigation into Guinean Man’s Death during Road Check Casts Doubt on Police Version: Mediapart

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The investigation into the death of a Guinean during a road check in Charente last June undermines the police version, according to elements revealed by Mediapart.

On June 14, two weeks before the death of young Nahel in Nanterre, Alhoussein Camara, 19, lost his life while driving his car to work, around 4 a.m. in the Angoulême metropolitan area. , killed by police fire after refusing to comply. The Alliance police union reported, that day, a “gunshot wound to the rib cage“the Angoulême public prosecutor speaking “from the upper body” without further clarification.

Since then, nothing has leaked out of the autopsy report. However, according to the source close to the file, this report indicates that the projectile entry port is located “on the left posterior side” from the body, excluding a frontal shot. Questioned on Monday about this information, the prosecution declined any comment.

The author of the fatal shot, a brigadier aged 52was indicted for intentional homicide and placed under judicial supervision at the end of June. Injured in one knee during the incidentwith an ITT of 30 days, he claims from the start to have pulled out his gun under threat of the car that hit him.

Elements that shake up the investigation

According to Mediapartthe author of the shot would have shot in the back of the young manwhile the policeman was talking about self-defense. He also claimed that the victim was on the run when she stopped at a red light.

“As in many cases of police violence, it appears that the police lied, that the unions validated their lies and that the courts covered them up.“, a denounced the Camara family lawyer, Arié Alimi.

(with AFP)

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