Business Malik Oussekine

The December 6th 1986, at the time of a student's demonstration against the university reform project of the minister Alain Devaquet, a French young man of Algerian origin 22 years, Malik Oussekine , studying at the University of the real professions (ESPI), finds death after being molesté by the police force.

Context

Since November 25th, students and high-school pupils of France expressed against the Projet Devaquet. The movement is marked by a strong police repression. Serious confrontations take place in margin of the demonstrations, making tens of casualties, of which several seriously reached.

December 6th 1986, after a peaceful demonstration, students occupy the Sorbonne. The University is evacuated in the calm one, but some students try to raise a barricade with the angle of the Rue Mister-the-Prince and Rue Vaugirard in the Life district of Paris. Immediately, a team of Voltigeur S motorcylcists is sent. The acrobats are police officers ridden with two on a cross-country motor bike. One led, the other is armed with a bludgeon. They have like objective “to clean” the streets after the demonstrations. They move quickly thanks to their motor bikes and, so must surprise and frighten the “breakers”.

Facts

While arriving in the Latin Quarter, the acrobats take in hunting the supposed young people “breakers” that they cross. Malik Oussekine, according to any probability foreigner with the studied movement, leaves its club of favorite jazz. It is midnight. Acrobats notice it and launch out to its continuation. Malik Oussekine short, it crosses a man who returns at his place. The man, Paul Bayzelon, civil servant of finances, let the student enter the hall of his building. This last is believed in the shelter, but not for a long time. The police officers who followed it enter in their turn. According to Mr. Bayzelon, alone pilot of the drama, the acrobats “ precipitated on the type taken refuge at the bottom and struck it with an incredible violence. It fell, they continued to strike with truncheon blows and of feet in the belly and the back. ”. A little later the Samu arrives on the spot, takes first aid to Malik Oussekine and transports it to the Cochin hospital, where he dies. According to the doctors, the student dies as much of the continuations of beating up by the police force as of his renal deficiency (unknown of the doctors urgentists). The Minister of Interior Department Charles Pasqua and her Secretary of State, Robert Pandraud, then causes controversies by not condemning the action of the police force this evening. Robert Pandraud declares: If I had a son under Dialyze, I would prevent it from going to make the idiot in the demonstrations

Continuations

By learning the news, the delegated minister in charge for research and higher education, Alain Devaquet politically already weakened, decides to resign. Moreover, this death and the big demonstrations force the Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac, to withdraw the Projet Devaquet, the December 8th. In answer to this business, the battalion of the acrobats will be dissolved.

Malik Oussekine is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise to Paris. The December 10th 1986, series of demonstrations quiet, which gather 400.000 people with Paris and a million in all France, pays homage to him.

The two acrobats directly implied in his death will pass in judgment under inculpation of “aggravated assault having resulted in unintentional death to give it”. They are condemned the January 28th 1990 to two and five one-year suspended sentences. In-house, their administration was satisfied with lighter disciplinary measures. One, 53 years old at the time of the facts, was put at the early withdrawal; the second was transferred.

In 2006, David Assouline, one of the leaders of the movement studied against Devaquet, become senator de Paris and city council man of Paris, proposes a wish with the Council of Paris to make deposit a commemorative plaque on the spot of the drama. The December 6th 2006, this plate was inaugurated in the presence of the family of Malik Oussekine and the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë. Criticisms were emitted because of the text and of the site of this plate because it is placed on the ground and not on the wall and the text of the plate does not announce that the murder is the fact of the police officers and would imply that the demonstrators are the cause.

The exact text of the plate is To the memory of Malik Oussekine, student 22 years old, struck with died at the time of the manifestation of December 6th, 1986

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