During the demonstration from January 3 to Paris for Cédric Chouviat. – SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP
One year after the police check which resulted in the death of Cédric Chouviat in Paris, family and supporters began Sunday afternoon a march to honor his memory but also to demand the suspension of the police officers , whose retention in office constitutes, according to them, a “scandal”. “It’s a walk in memory of our son, our father, our husband. It’s a silent walk, in peace, without mess. We want to show that the Chouviat family will always exist ”, declared in front of the journalists
Christian Chouviat , the father of the driver of 20 years.
Several hundred people rushed out shortly afterwards 12 h 15, Place de l’Uruguay, in the very chic 16 e arrondissement of Paris: militants of Attac, of the Emergency Collective our police murder or “Yellow vests”. Cédric Chouviat died following a police check on January 3 190. He was tackled to the ground with his motorcycle helmet on his head during this check, causing discomfort. Taken in critical condition to the hospital, he died on January 5.
The family is awaiting the suspension of the police
Four police officers took part in this control at the quai Branly near the Eiffel Tower, at the place where the march must end. Three were indicted for “manslaughter”, while a fourth policewoman was placed under the status of assisted witness. The suspension of these police officers is “the most important for us”, declared before the departure of the march his father, Christian Chouviat, stressing that the fact that they were not suspended “is a scandal”. And the decision “depends only on Gerald Darmanin”, he hammered.
Surrounded by other families or relatives of people who died in cases where the police are involved, such as Babacar Gueye or Ibrahima Bah, the mother of Cédric Chouviat, Doria, too, asked for their suspension. “I cannot accept that the fourth policewoman is only an assisted witness,” she added. The police “are still working and we do not understand it.”
A “dignified” demonstration
“We are lucky that my son filmed his death, we are privileged, if I may say so, in our misfortune, ”she said again. “Cedric left us all the evidence to defend him,” she continued. This white march also intends to speak out against the proposed “Global Security” law, which has been hotly contested in recent months during demonstrations, in particular by journalists and defenders of public freedoms.