Grégoire Chassaing is on trial before the Rennes Criminal Court for the involuntary manslaughter of Steve Maia Caniço, who drowned in the Loire on the evening of the Music Festival in Nantes in 2019.
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The Rennes prosecutor requires “a sentence of principle” against commissioner Grégoire Chassaing, tried for the involuntary manslaughter of Steve Maia Caniço who drowned during the Music Festival in Nantes in June 2019. “We let you appreciate nature and quantum”says Philippe Astruc, the prosecutor, to the court at the end of his indictment.
In his indictment, the prosecutor asks “let us take into account the fact that Mr. Chassaing does not alone bear the weight of the death of Steve Maia Caniço”. Philippe Astruc indicated that“there was a prior attack by the police. The action, however wrongful it may be, does not invalidate either the man or the professional. I hope that the court will make a careful assessment of what is involved. put in the pans of the balance.
“I like to think that in a mature democracy it is possible to calmly analyze the specific action of a representative of the police without this documented debate being perceived as a confrontation between a social group against ‘important institution of the republic’declared the prosecutor during his indictment.
The court’s decision will be rendered on Friday September 20, at 2 p.m., according to information from the France Inter police-justice service.
