According to the transcripts of the recordings revealed by The World and Mediapart, the deliveryman dead after a apprehension of the police was repeated seven times these words.
The last words of Cedric Chouviat is a harrowing reminder of those spoken by George Floyd, a few minutes before dying under the knee of a police officer. In the records of his microphone turned on during his arrest, transmitted by investigators of the Institute of criminal research of the national gendarmerie and revealed this Monday by Mediapart and The World, Cédric Chouviat repeat seven times “I choke”, before losing consciousness, dying two days later in the hospital.
The four police officers involved in his arrest were taken into custody Wednesday 17 June, and heard by the general Inspectorate of the national police, says The World. A judicial inquiry was opened for “manslaughter”.
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On 3 January in Paris, this delivery scooter is asked to pull over by four police officers. The scene was filmed by passers-by and had made the rounds of social networks. But new videos have also been recorded by Cedric Chouviat itself, indicates The World, and the other three taken by one of the police involved in the arrest. The 42-year-old father of five children, also had his microphone attached to his phone inside his helmet, which could allow investigators to have a sound recording of the scene in twelve minutes.
An exchange, “relatively correct”
These records help highlight the fact that Cedric Chouviat has perhaps not been as “aggressive” and “insulting” that the police officers involved have described. In fact, it is mainly used to treat the agents of the “clown” or “clowns”. “The exchange is relatively correct, even if we can feel a form of “provocation” or of “no confidence” in the words of the controlled person,” noted the investigators in the report. On the other hand, when he asked a police officer to say “please”, he responds : “Yeah and then you believe that I’m going to put myself to four legs, I’ll suck you cock too.”
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While the scene seems to many times be completed without more trouble, a new exchange of words comes to revive the confrontation, explain the two media. The latter, which will lead to the plating on the ground deadly Cedric Chouviat, comes as the carrier launches a “guignol” to the police officers, who responded : “we are back”.
from this point, the police decide to carry it, the investigators describe noises “that we are not in a position to formally identify him. They may be due to rubbing on the microphone”. Police then tackled to the ground by Cedric Chouviat and apply the controversial technique, the key bottleneck, according to one witness.
techniques to stop controversial
lawyers for the family, interviewed by Mediapart and The World, are seeking to “prohibit immediately the use of the key bottlenecks, and tackle the ventral”. “The dreadful words of Cedric Chouviat before you die, make this sentence a shout universal. In spite of the crees, the police have maintained their pressure poisonous. Cedric Chouviat could be saved, say William Bourdon and Vincent Brengarth to Mediapart. These last elements of the investigation showed that this form of apprehension leads to a mechanical determination of which Cedric was indisputably the victim.”
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“Every public servant and the ministry of the interior have now the knowledge that the technical bottlenecks and tackle ventral can kill anyone at any time. Any use of these techniques will now be constitutive of murder,” adds the lawyer Arié Alimi in the World.
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After the death of George Floyd, Christophe Castaner was announced at the beginning of June, during a press conference on police violence, the end of the teaching of the technique of the key bottlenecks in the police schools. In the Face of the anger triggered in the ranks of the police with this announcement, the minister of the Interior is finally back on its decision. The key bottlenecks will continue to be implemented” until such time as a new technique of interpellation is defined, announced on June 15, the chief of the national police.
