The Liu family had challenged the dismissal granted to the police officer in July 2019, confirmed in November 2020 on appeal, the official benefiting from self-defense.
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Final decision. The Court of Cassation rejected, Wednesday, February 16, an appeal from the family of Liu Shaoyao, killed in 2017 by a police officer during an intervention at his home in Paris. “After examining both the admissibility of the appeal and the procedural documents, the Court of Cassation finds that there is, in this case, no means of such a nature as to allow the appeal to be admitted”expressed the jurisdiction.
The Liu family had challenged the dismissal granted to the police officer in July 2019, confirmed in November 2020 on appeal, the official benefiting from self-defense.
On March 26, 2017 shortly after 8 p.m., the police went to a housing estate in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, alerted by a neighbor who had reported the presence of Liu Shaoyao, very agitated and holding in his hand what this neighbor believed to be a knife. Fearing danger, a police officer fired a shot, fatally touching the heart Liu Shaoyao, 56 years old, under the eyes of his children.
According to the police version, Liu Shaoyao had just attacked the official with his scissors. For the Liu children, their father never touched anyone: the blade was a pair of scissors, which he used to scale fish. A neighbor, witness from the hallway, assures that he never heard the police shouting “he plants me” before the shot.
The death of Liu Shaoyao had sparked the anger of the Chinese community during several demonstrations of an unprecedented scale.