After injuring more than 200 people fighting for water sharing in Ste
Soline on March 25, 2023;
After blocking the arrival of emergency services attempting to evacuate
people whose lives were in danger;
After a complaint was filed for obstruction of emergency services and
attempted homicide;
After dozens of injured people contacted the Defender of Rights;
After two years of a dragging, recalcitrant, incomplete, and biased
investigation;
After the damning release of videos of officers boasting about illegal
shootings, insulting protesters, and reveling in the thrill of injuring,
maiming, and hoping to kill;
After the outrage, the increasingly laborious demands for
investigations, the start of an administrative inquiry, and the slim
hope that light will be shed on a law enforcement operation that kills,
maims, and revels in it;
After injuring more than 200 people fighting for water sharing in Ste
Soline on March 25, 2023;
After blocking the arrival of emergency services attempting to evacuate
people whose lives were in danger;
After a complaint was filed for obstruction of emergency services and
attempted homicide;
After dozens of injured people appealed to the Defender of Rights;
After two years of a dragging, recalcitrant, incomplete, and biased
investigation;
After the damning release of videos of officers boasting about illegal
shootings, insulting protesters, and reveling in the thrill of injuring
and maiming, hoping to kill;
After the outrage, the increasingly insistent demands for
investigations, the start of an administrative inquiry, and the slim
hope that light might be shed on a law enforcement operation that kills,
maims, and even revels in it;
The Rennes prosecutor has decided to dismiss the complaints of Mika,
Serge, Olivier, and Alix, burying an investigation that had barely
begun, refusing requests for answers, blocking all attempts at justice,
avoiding the inspection of a flawed chain of command, and intends to
close the book on the events at Sainte-Soline.
This decision by the prosecutor is all the more shocking given that the
judicial missteps in this case have been widely criticized since the
publication of videos by Mediapart and Libération showing footage
captured by police body cameras, with officers boasting about the
activists' injuries and urging each other to carry out illegal
shootings. The journalists' investigative work clearly demonstrated how
the IGGN (General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie) inquiry was
designed to cover up the responsibility of officers in the orders they
gave, as well as in the mistakes made by their subordinates.
Regarding the direct fire, an administrative inquiry was opened. It is
in this context that the prosecutor's statement, acknowledging the
firing, falls, yet failing to connect it to the mutilations described in
the complaint.
This dismissal is typical of numerous IGGN investigations, of many
injured people left without answers, all in an effort to avoid, once
again, a damning truth. In the Sainte-Soline case, the bias towards a
form of policing designed to terrorize the demonstrators, even at the
risk of seriously injuring them, stemmed from decisions made at the
highest levels of the State, specifically by the then Minister of the
Interior, Mr. Darmanin. Ultimately, it is he whom the shortcomings of
the investigation also seek to protect.
We see the hand of the same Darmanin in the prosecutor's decision,
acting as both judge and party, since he is now Minister of Justice and,
as such, the highest-ranking prosecutor, and simultaneously, potentially
implicated in the policing strategy at Sainte-Soline, in his capacity as
Minister of the Interior.
We reject this imposed passivity. The injured comrades will file a
complaint with the investigating judge, becoming civil parties to the
case, in an attempt to circumvent the obstruction erected by the prosecutor.
We refuse this impunity, this silence, and this forgetting. We call for
renewed expressions of solidarity wherever possible in support of those
who have been injured, and for voices to be raised in protest against
this grotesque and despicable attempt to cover up police state violence.
P.S.
On the BNM website, the article includes numerous links that support the
claims...
Title: Attached documents
BNM Press Release Following the Dismissal of Complaints in Sainte-Soline
(PDF - 108.3 KB)
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4580
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Soline on March 25, 2023;
After blocking the arrival of emergency services attempting to evacuate
people whose lives were in danger;
After a complaint was filed for obstruction of emergency services and
attempted homicide;
After dozens of injured people contacted the Defender of Rights;
After two years of a dragging, recalcitrant, incomplete, and biased
investigation;
After the damning release of videos of officers boasting about illegal
shootings, insulting protesters, and reveling in the thrill of injuring,
maiming, and hoping to kill;
After the outrage, the increasingly laborious demands for
investigations, the start of an administrative inquiry, and the slim
hope that light will be shed on a law enforcement operation that kills,
maims, and revels in it;
After injuring more than 200 people fighting for water sharing in Ste
Soline on March 25, 2023;
After blocking the arrival of emergency services attempting to evacuate
people whose lives were in danger;
After a complaint was filed for obstruction of emergency services and
attempted homicide;
After dozens of injured people appealed to the Defender of Rights;
After two years of a dragging, recalcitrant, incomplete, and biased
investigation;
After the damning release of videos of officers boasting about illegal
shootings, insulting protesters, and reveling in the thrill of injuring
and maiming, hoping to kill;
After the outrage, the increasingly insistent demands for
investigations, the start of an administrative inquiry, and the slim
hope that light might be shed on a law enforcement operation that kills,
maims, and even revels in it;
The Rennes prosecutor has decided to dismiss the complaints of Mika,
Serge, Olivier, and Alix, burying an investigation that had barely
begun, refusing requests for answers, blocking all attempts at justice,
avoiding the inspection of a flawed chain of command, and intends to
close the book on the events at Sainte-Soline.
This decision by the prosecutor is all the more shocking given that the
judicial missteps in this case have been widely criticized since the
publication of videos by Mediapart and Libération showing footage
captured by police body cameras, with officers boasting about the
activists' injuries and urging each other to carry out illegal
shootings. The journalists' investigative work clearly demonstrated how
the IGGN (General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie) inquiry was
designed to cover up the responsibility of officers in the orders they
gave, as well as in the mistakes made by their subordinates.
Regarding the direct fire, an administrative inquiry was opened. It is
in this context that the prosecutor's statement, acknowledging the
firing, falls, yet failing to connect it to the mutilations described in
the complaint.
This dismissal is typical of numerous IGGN investigations, of many
injured people left without answers, all in an effort to avoid, once
again, a damning truth. In the Sainte-Soline case, the bias towards a
form of policing designed to terrorize the demonstrators, even at the
risk of seriously injuring them, stemmed from decisions made at the
highest levels of the State, specifically by the then Minister of the
Interior, Mr. Darmanin. Ultimately, it is he whom the shortcomings of
the investigation also seek to protect.
We see the hand of the same Darmanin in the prosecutor's decision,
acting as both judge and party, since he is now Minister of Justice and,
as such, the highest-ranking prosecutor, and simultaneously, potentially
implicated in the policing strategy at Sainte-Soline, in his capacity as
Minister of the Interior.
We reject this imposed passivity. The injured comrades will file a
complaint with the investigating judge, becoming civil parties to the
case, in an attempt to circumvent the obstruction erected by the prosecutor.
We refuse this impunity, this silence, and this forgetting. We call for
renewed expressions of solidarity wherever possible in support of those
who have been injured, and for voices to be raised in protest against
this grotesque and despicable attempt to cover up police state violence.
P.S.
On the BNM website, the article includes numerous links that support the
claims...
Title: Attached documents
BNM Press Release Following the Dismissal of Complaints in Sainte-Soline
(PDF - 108.3 KB)
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4580
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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