France, Alternative Libertaire AL #241 - Death Lamine Dieng: The police impunity is endless! (fr, pt)

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After six months of investigation and eleven years, the police led to the death of Lamine 
Dieng, 26, died "smothered" in a police van on the night of June 17, 2007 in M?nilmontant, 
received a dismissed. A commemoration event was held Saturday, June 21, 2014. ---- There 
are seven, Lamine Dieng was found dead in a police van. That night, three police officers 
went street Bidasoa, in the twentieth district of Paris, after a phone call about an 
altercation. According to police testimony, that's where they found Lamine lying under a 
car. Also according to police, he was very agitated and reportedly pushed officers. They 
then called for reinforcements. Two other officers arrived, followed by a captain and a 
lieutenant. Lamine has been detained by five policemen face against the ground, hands 
cuffed behind his back, his right arm over his shoulder and feet shackled by a strap. He 
was then transported in a police car, where he was placed in the same position. Calvary 
Lamine lasted thirty minutes, during which he was held face against the ground under the 
weight of the policemen who were kneeling on his back. Lamine Dieng's family was not 
informed of his death until 48 hours later, an official death due to cardiac arrest. After 
several silent marches, a support committee was created in the neighborhood.

"A license to kill for the police"

The National Commission on Security Ethics (NSDC), stated that the death was caused by 
Lamine "inadequate restraint." However, according to Amnesty International, no 
disciplinary proceedings have so far been taken against the officers who carried out the 
arrest. Justice issued on May 24 a dismissal for police officers. Since the announcement 
of the court decision, Ramata Dieng, the sister of the victim, said , "No justice in 
France for the victims of police violence, impunity issues a permit to kill the police 
murderers. Thank you banana republic to deny our right to life and to deprive us of our 
right to justice ".

Like every year, the group called Stolen Lives mobilization Saturday, June 21 in Paris in 
the twentieth. Mobilization that brought together a procession of 150 to 200 people. For 
these families no longer feel alone, Ramata and others have mounted the collective Lives 
stolen in 2010 to bring together all the associations Truth and Justice. Other 
organizations, including the collective angle death or our Emergency Police murdered, 
continues to deny the inevitability of this police impunity.

Several hundred dead for thirty years

In recent years, Lamine was unfortunately not the only one to fall under the boot of the 
police! Akim Ajimi in Grasse, Ali Ziri in Argenteuil, Wissam al-Yamni in Clermont-Ferrand, 
Amine Bentounsi in Noisy-le-Sec, etc. For thirty years, it is more than 300 dead at the 
hands of the police, with the dead rising steadily each year (85 known dead between 2005 
and 20121)!

It can not be acceptable to speak of burrs, police crimes are not a coincidence, but the 
result of a systemic unequal and racist social order, or the life of a young proletarian 
from colonization is not grand thing. And the impunity enjoyed by the police 
systematically, these crimes are the height of class violence in France today and must be 
denounced in the most combative manner by the social movement and all those who claim of 
the class struggle, in order to silence those cases out. when to head Lamine, Wissam or 
Amine to a union or a policy to the deaths of silence out newspaper?

Nicolas Pasadena (AL Montreuil)