He admits that "in terms of theoretical reflection, there is such a disconnection in the French intellectual and academic field with these issues that we are obliged to refer to American theorists such as Paul Butler, Michelle Alexander or Alice Goffman," but he adds that "there is this tendency, when talking about the police or racism, to always evoke the American situation, which seems problematic to me. [37] She called on the French government to indict the officers who killed Adama,[38][39] and for the elements of his autopsy to be reexamined, saying: My brother withstood the weight of those three gendarmes for nine minutes. Traoré once said that although French society is critical of polygamy, she had a very comfortable upbringing. [3][4], The circumstances of Adama's death are disputed. the crowd marched behind a banner showing Traore's face together with that of George Floyd, a Black man died after being choked by a white police officer in the US city of Minneapolis in May sparking Black Lives Matter demonstrations around the world. "No man, no person should die like that, at that age," his sister Assa Traore, who has led the family's legal fight, said at the rally. But for me, it is a way of denying that it is a French story, even more hidden here than in the United States". [40][41], Famous attendees of the march included DJ Snake, Danielle Simonnet and Manuel Bompard.[42]. Assa Traoré: The Activist. The 24-year-old fainted after being pinned to the ground by officers during his arrest in July 2016 and later died at a police station. Assa Traoré is the sister of Adama Traoré, who died in 2016 while in police custody. This text has been sent to our newspaper. The circumstances leading up to Traore's death remain unclear. Assa Traoré (born 1985) is a Frenchactivist and leader of the Committee for Justice and Truth for Adama. No one has been charged over the death, and the case is still under investigation. Assa Traoré and the Adama Committee have likened their struggle to the Immigration and Suburbs Movement (MIB), a grassroots anti-racist organization founded in 1995 that has waned in recent years. Today, the 35-year-old mother of three is an international figure in the fight against police violence and racism, thrust into the heart of the debate by the death in Minneapolis last month of George Floyd. Bagui was wanted for his involvement in an extortion case, leading police to approach the brothers for a frisking. After George Floyd died in unclear circumstances in May 2020, probably not from police violence, Traore’s dead brother was resurrected this past summer as France’s George Floyd 2.0. Assa Traore is not alone in leading campaign against French police. Today we denounce police impunity in the death of Adama Traoré. Given that coronavirus restrictions are still in place in public spaces across Germany, many wore face coverings and attempted to keep 1.5 meters (5 feet) away from other protesters. [...] So in total, the comparison between France and the United States is relevant, although obviously we have to say that everything is not the same, that in the United States there are specific questions and problems, notably related to the phenomenon of the deportation of African populations to the American continent. [51] Assa Troré denies any proximity with Houria Bouteldja, whom she adds that she has never met: "I will be very clear: we do not have the same vision as the Indigenous Party of the Republic, and we do not want to be associated with them. [46], When the experts required by Justice put forward various illnesses to explain the causes of Adama Traoré's death, the Truth and Justice for Adama Committee, at its own expense, commissions a report from experts on these illnesses, which contradicts the explanations put forward, thus avoiding the closure of the case and requesting new judicial investigations. Traoré was born in January 1985 to a polygamous family, wherein her father had four wives. Unless the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Financial Times have information that we don’t have, and then they should give it to us. In 2020, organizers and activists pushed their fellow citizens to connect the dots and understand just how much is tied to systemic racism. Holding posters saying, "racism kills, mentally, physically, globally," more than 1,500 protesters marched through the inner city to condemn police brutality. Traore thanked BET, an American television channel dedicated to African-American and minority people, for the award, calling it "an acknowledgment of our fight." [47], The committee has succeeded in getting intellectuals such as the writers Annie Ernaux and Édouard Louis, as well as the philosopher and sociologist Geoffroy de Lagasnerie,[48] involved on a long-term basis, what the movement had failed to do in support of young people from Villiers-le-Bel who were being prosecuted on suspicion of shooting at the police after the death of a mini-motorcycle in a collision with a police car in Mushin and Laramy on November 25, 2007, despite the participation, in June 2010, of Benjamin Rosoux - the grocer from Tarnac close to Julien Coupat - in a demonstration in Pontoise. Traore's case has become a symbol for the campaign against discrimination and police violence in France and has gained new momentum in the wake of the Floyd-inspired anti-racism protests. [12] She grew up with 17 siblings. The Adama Committee is open to everyone. [1], The cause of Adama's death was at first unclear, and the officers who arrested him claimed he died of a heart attack[25] at Persan police station. 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[8][34] The campaign refrains from aligning itself politically, while remaining committed to goals both narrow and broad: to obtain the whole truth about Adama's death, a conviction for the police that killed him, and the prohibition of certain police arrest tactics, such that would lead to asphyxiation; and to challenge the "social elimination of blacks and Arabs" that makes this violence so pervasive and its elimination so difficult. Assa Traore, the sister of Adama Traore, who died in police custody in 2016, took part in a protest march on July 18, 2020 in Beaumont-sur-Oise, outside Paris. A few days after the attack on the Bayonne mosque, Assa Traoré and the Truth and Justice for Adama committee were among the first to call for a demonstration against Islamophobia in Paris on November 10, 2019. [33], Following the death of her brother, and the exoneration of the officers that killed him,[11] Traoré founded the advocacy group Committee for Justice and Truth for Adama (Le comité vérité et justice pour Adama). International activist Assa Traore, whose brother Adama was killed in French police custody four years ago, was given the BET Global Good award on Sunday. [19] She entered a "religious" marriage in 2007,[12] the same year she graduated with a diploma in special needs teaching. Until the death of her brother Adama in French police custody four years ago, Assa Traore had never been someone who campaigned for a cause. Her younger brother Adama also died in police custody, in 2016, reportedly uttering those same dying words. [11], Traoré was born in January 1985 to a polygamous family, wherein her father had four wives. An autopsy raised in court indicated he may have suffered asphyxiation after his arrest,[5] which was admitted by one of the Gendarmes who held him. [30], In 2017, Traoré co-wrote "Lettre à Adama"[31] (Letter to Adama) with Elsa Vigoureux,[32] in which she delineated the story of her brother Adama and his struggle, as well as the struggle of minority ethnic groups against police violence. [26][27] One also claimed that they had been ordered to pin him down,[28] which may be the explanation of why a later autopsy showed that he had in fact died of asphyxiation,[29] under a 551-pound weight. Three health centres suspends work in Dhofar, Messi brace leads Barca to Copa del Rey win, Submit work contracts online, says Oman’s Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning issues new decision. Starting with Act III of the Yellow Vests, the Truth and Justice for Adama committee gave its support to the movement and took part in the demonstrations: "We recognized ourselves in them". By a "half" of (fully) republican gendarme. Assa Traore, sister of Adama Traore, a 24-year-old Black Frenchman who died in a 2016 police operation, attends a gathering in front of a fresco in memory of Adama Traore … [15] The family lived in Beaumont-sur-Oise,[16] where Mara-Siré was a construction worker. The march was held on July 18th, 2020 (Adama's birthday) in Val-d'Oise. This issue tells that story, in part, through our 2020 Guardians of the Year: racial-justice organizers like Assa Traoré in Paris and Porche Bennett-Bey in … Traoré spoke at the "Marche pour Adama" (March for Adama), the gathering of 2,700 people[36] in honour of Adama Traoré. Explore {{searchView.params.phrase}} by colour family {{familyColorButtonText(colorFamily.name)}} Rendez-vous with Assa Traore the sister of Adama Traore a young man who died after his arrest by the police; Assa Traore seeks justice for her... Rendez-vous with Assa Traore … [1] He was later pronounced dead in police custody, his family not being alerted of this news until nearly four hours later. The sociologist Michel Wieviorka also minimizes the influence of identity theories: "The postcolonial or intersectional movement supports the current mobilization, but it is not itself the fuel for it. "[52] Refusing to exclude, for example, white people from her struggle, she declared before the Paris judicial court, at the appeal of the Truth and Justice for Adama Committee on June 2, 2020: "No matter where you come from, no matter what color of skin you have, no matter what religion you have, no matter what sexual orientation you have, you must not remain a spectator in the face of injustice, in the face of murder, in the face of police impunity".[53]. Wishing for a convergence of struggles between those led by the Truth and Justice for Adama committee and the Yellow Vests, several committees and figures of the movement such as Maxime Nicolle, Priscillia Ludosky and Jérôme Rodrigues took part in a demonstration in July 2019 in Beaumont-sur-Oise. Now you can see non-English news... Home News Business ... Letter to Assa Traoré: "Madam, I live with a gendarme ..." 2020-06-07T11:00:06.132Z. [21], On July 19, 2016,[22] Assa's brother Adama died while in the charge of the gendarmerie. [8] On July 18, 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, she participated in the "Marche pour Adama" (March for Adama),[9] and called for the prosecution of the gendarmerie who had killed her brother. Assa Traoré had long demanded justice for her half brother, Adama, who died in police custody. Since 2016, Assa Traoré, a … She has been named a “guardian of the year” by Time Magazine and obtained a full article in The New York Times. But Traoré has also vowed to maintain her group’s political autonomy and to avoid the fate of mass anti-racist protests in the early 1980s. [49][50], Black American activist Angela Davis hails Assa Traoré's struggle, because "the struggle in which she is engaged clearly denounces police violence and systemic racism as integral elements of French society, like police violence and its genealogy with slavery in the United States of America" and believes that "it was time for women to take the lead in the struggle movements, because they have always been the backbone of it". Traoré once said that although French society is critical of polygamy, she had a very comfortable upbringing. Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images Linkedin FB … [1] Discrepancies in this autopsy were pointed out by Assa Traore's lawyers, leading to the promise of a new report in January from Belgian medical experts. With the death of George Floyd in the United States, the race movement quickly spread around the world. This movement is above all a demand for justice. Published . In a tribune at Parisien-today in France, the companion of a gendarme, "anti-racist and disgusted by the abuse of authority", app. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE. [2] In 2020, she was named one of Time Magazine's "Guardians of the year". "No man, no person should die like that, at that age," his sister Assa Traore, who has led the family's legal fight, said at the rally. Assa Traoré, named one of TIME’s 2020 Guardians of the Year, could not bring herself to join them. More. He had been cycling[23] on a birthday outing with his brother, Bagui. [24] Police then gave chase, capturing him and losing him two different times, eventually apprehending him by allegedly placing their bodily weight on top to subdue him. [43] Beyond the case of Adama Traoré, the committee states their purpose as to make visible its struggle for the neighbourhoods and against police violence. [12], Traoré is a mother to three children,[17] and was a special education teacher,[8][18] until 2016, when she became an activist full-time. [1][2] The committee is named after her half-brother, Adama Traoré, who died in police custody. There are historical similarities, France also has a history of slavery, there are cities in France which were built on slavery, I think for example of Bordeaux, or Nantes, cities which have were built on the operation of the slave trade. Author Gallia Daily - Voice of France In December 2020, the American newspaper Time made Assa Traoré, a Malian living in France, the spokesperson and symbol of the global anti-racist struggle. Assa Traoré addresses a crowd during a demonstration in Persan, France, to commemorate the fourth anniversary of her brother Adama Traoré's death. 1 Quest for Justice Helps Fuel Black Rights Fight in France Assa Traoré started by fighting for justice for her brother Adama, who died in police custody on his 24th birthday four years ago. Traoré and her family turned down the offer of talks with the French Minister of Justice, on account of the committee's beliefs that these talks would be ineffectual, and not lead to any legal action. Times of Oman is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. In France, the family of Adama Traoré, took advantage of this racial focus on Africans to relaunch the 2016 affair of the young black man’s death. Because this is a global fight. ER Editor: Assa Traoré, the sister of a nasty criminal in France who ended up dying in police custody in 2016, is a key figure in France for leading the BLM-style charge. We denounce social violence. Incessant and widely publicized demonstrations organized by the clan of Assa Traoré are the best example of this inversion. Especially after the movement following the death of George Floyd in 2020 in Minnesota, the committee is closer to the American Black Lives Matter movement and to concepts forged in the United States such as institutional racism or intersectionality as a tool for analysing discrimination. [23] Adama is reported as having said to the gendarmerie multiple times, "Je n'arrive plus à respirer" (I cannot breathe) while incarcerated. [1], Until the death of George Floyd sparked global protests, Traoré had been largely unsuccessful in her attempts to combat institutionalised racism in France.[35]. French judges ordered a new inquiry earlier this year, with results expected in early 2021. IVRY-SUR-SEINE, France (AP) — Assa Traoré has been fighting for justice ever since her brother Adama died in the custody of French police on his 24th birthday four years ago. Police impunity in France. [10], For her services to the Black Lives Matter campaign, she received the BET's Global Good Honouree Award. The Limited Times. Assa Traoré is the figurehead of "Le comité vérité et justice pour Adama" (Truth and Justice for Adama committee) which includes seasoned activists such as Youcef Brakni, a Bagnolet activist, Samir Elyes from the MIB, who was employed to organise violence against gendarmes,[43] and Almamy Kanouté from the group Émergence,[44][45] who was employed as a public relations manager. The New York Times revealed that after September 11, 2001, the US became interested in sponsoring the global race debate. Assa Traoré, seen here at a rally in Paris on June 13th, has become an animating force of resistance to police violence in France since the death of her brother, Adama, in 2016. They willingly killed Adama. By Pallabi Munsi. Adama, not having his identification card on him and fearful for what might happen after another recent arrest, took off on foot. She grew up with 17 siblings. IVRY-SUR-SEINE, France - Assa Traoré has been fighting for justice ever since her brother Adama died in the custody of French police on his 24th birthday four years ago. In December 2020, the American newspaper "Time" made Assa Traoré, a Malian living in France, the spokesperson and symbol of the global anti-racist struggle. PHOTO: AFP. [6] Since Adama's death she has attempted to challenge the institutions of France, rallying activists from black neighbourhoods[7] and engaging medical experts to try to get to the bottom of his death. Since 2016, his family has been seeking a full account of events, and for the gendarmes involved to be charged with homicide. 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