Police violence: a friendly agreement between France and the family of a young death in 2007

Lamine Dieng died on 17 June 2007 in Paris in a police bus after having been locked-in and pressed to the ground while he was resisting his arrest. The French

Lamine Dieng died on 17 June 2007 in Paris in a police bus after having been locked-in and pressed to the ground while he was resisting his arrest.

The French government is going to pay 145 000 euros to the relatives of Lamine Dieng, a Franco-Senegalese 25-year-old died in 2007 after an arrest muscled in Paris, to lead the prosecution against France, learned Monday the AFP from the european Court of human rights (ECHR).

The French court had denied the family of the young man, and they had lodged an application to the ECHR in December 2017. But the Strasbourg court has not had to consider the merits of the case : the parties have found a mutual agreement, ratified on may 14, that balance any further in this matter.

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“The Court has received the declaration of friendly settlement under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against the France about the facts at the origin of this request, the Government is committed to pay them the amount reproduced in the table attached in the annex”, is 145 000 euros, note the ECHR.

A “fight against the denial of justice”

“The Court takes formal note of the agreement reached between the parties. It considers that this agreement is based on the respect of Human rights guaranteed by the Convention and its protocols and sees no reason that would require it to continue the examination of the application concerned,” says the european body.

The family of Lamine Dieng welcomed the regulation, which is, for her, “a victory”. “We have lived through thirteen years of fighting against the denial of justice, in the face of an institution that has systematically been denied a trial for those responsible for the death of our son, brother, uncle”, stressed in a statement that the family of the victim, by the voice of his sister Ramata Dieng.

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this One, and disappointed by the position of the president and Emmanuel Macron on the subject of police violence, has called for a protest Saturday afternoon in Paris, “place de la République, at 13h12, for a walk around the neighborhood of Ménilmontant, where dwells our family”.

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Lamine Dieng died on June 17, 2007 in the early morning in a police bus after having been locked-in and pressed to the ground while he was resisting his arrest in the popular area in paris Menilmontant. For several years, the committee “Truth and justice Lamine Dieng” and the collective “Lives stolen” are also calling for the ban of the “key bottleneck”, a technique police portrayed.

Date Of Update: 16 June 2020, 03:58

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