How to make a miscarriage of justice |The press

So, in the first viewing, the investigators did not see "the third vehicle".And they accusedMamadi III FaraCamara, since all circumstances played against him.And six days later, an investigator will see it more closely ... and discovers that the false suspect was true.

Whoops…

Judicial errors do not start otherwise.A serious crime: an attempted murder on a police officer.A convenient suspect, "obvious": he has just been intercepted by the victim policeman.The policeman is struck by behind while he returns to draw up the observation in his car: normal to suspect the driver he has just stopped!

Conclusions, logical, are ready -made.And we don't want to undo them.

An investigator therefore decided to watch the video again.But imagine for a moment that there was not this video to exonerateMamadi III FaraCamara, arrested on the scene of the crime last week.It was a kind of flagrant offense, if it was necessary to believe the official version!

He would still be in prison, protesting his innocence.And good luck for the trial ... he may be a brilliant student in a doctorate, having a spotless past, a row life, he is still on the scene of the crime, he came out of his car ... What is he doing there, while a policeman is in a pool of blood?

What would have happened without this video?M.Camara would still be detained.Maybe until his trial ... perhaps found guilty.

But I have another more pressing question: why did it take six days to relying this video?It is not as if a witness has been argued with an alley with a video captured on his phone.It was a very official camera of theMinistry of Transport that captured the scene.Investigators had watched it and had not noticed anything ladle at the start.

M.Camara therefore appeared on Friday, and it was not until the following Wednesday that the chief prosecutor went to the court to decree the judicial process stopping-the day when her provisional release was decided.

From the little we know,M.Camara himself composed 911 after the assault against the policeman.He was still on the scene when the police arrived.The policeman was seriously injured in the head, he had been disarmed and it was believed that he may have received a projectile in the head.M.Camara did not have the weapon - that we did not find.He had not fled.Maybe he didn't have time?Maybe there had been a fight?Maybe he had launched the weapon?

Les circonstances jouaient contre lui, puisqu’il venait d’être arrêté par le policier en question et qu’apparemment, celui-ci aurait désigné comme suspect « le dernier automobiliste arrêté » –M.Camara.Logic.

Dans les circonstances, les agents avaient de bons motifs pour arrêterM.Camara.Mais après ? Quels éléments de preuve avaient-ils pour le faire accuser ? Apparemment, il y avait toutes les circonstances au départ, et ce n’est qu’un réexamen des images qui l’a sauvé.

Si ce brillant étudiant au doctorat, au passé irréprochable et à la vie rangée n’avait pas été africain, aurait-on mieux vérifié ?Mieux écouté sa version ? Regardé la vidéo plus vite ?

This turnaround is far too big so that we do not ask the question squarely: was it at the head of the customer?

Not necessarily, no.Mais ça s’est vu, n’est-ce pas ?

I am not saying that the police arrested the first black black.I say that once this objective suspect has been arrested for good reasons, it took a very objective element of evidence for him to be believed and released.

We will have to make this proof public and explain yourself.

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Anyway, I am not regulating this case, still too full of holes.I try to show how an ordinary miscarriage.

A serious crime.Police with adrenaline as much as possible: one of them was almost killed.A suspect is on site.He tells a bizarre story.We will certainly not blame them for taking him to the post.

Car c’est une histoire bizarre, à la fin : un automobiliste se fait arrêter, mais c’est un pur inconnu passant par là qui tente de tuer le policier juste comme il a le dos tourné, juste quand il a quittéM.Camara pour retourner à sa voiture.And why does a pure unknown out of nowhere come there, strikes the policeman, the disarm?Funny chance ... Tell me about a person "in the wrong place, at the wrong time".It's a bit big ... In fact, it doesn't stand up.

And yet it looks like it's true.

But once the certainty anchored in the minds of the investigators, it is not easy to deconstruct this conviction.The truth here is a little too improbable, frankly incredible ... and no one wants to let a police killer run.

Judicial errors often look alike.A crime that raises indignation.A logical suspect at hand.Police officers honestly convinced of their business.A little too convinced ... a little too fast.Even if it means jumping to conclusions, losing their objectivity.

Unfortunately, there is not always a video, a trace of DNA, a witness of the eleventh hour, a zealous investigator.

It remains to defend oneself only a "reasonable doubt" to offer to the jury.From time to time, it is not useless to remember why it exists.And why prudence and reserve still have their place in the media narrative of police affairs.

What justice told us on Wednesday is that we accused unjustly, deprived of his freedom and sali in the media an innocent.It should disturb us all.

In addition to the fact that the culprit is still on the run ...