Investigation Reopens into Elderly Woman’s Death During Yellow Vest Protests

"The next logical step is the placement in custody and the indictment of the riot police who had tear gas launchers in order to force them to tell the truth and to say which riot police officer shot at Mrs. Redouane. We want rapid prosecutions against the guilty riot police."

These are the words with which Me Yassine Bouzrou, lawyer for the Redouane family, reacted to the resumption of the investigation on Franceinfo. For him, the investigators must go to the end of the investigations so that the people involved in the death of Zineb Redouane are prosecuted.

Similarly, he believes that "everything that has been done in Marseille so far was simply to obstruct the investigation and to ensure that the shooter was not identified", pointing an accusing finger at prosecutor Xavier Tarabeux. The latter was moreover transferred to Metz.

While Zineb Redouane was closing the window of her apartment on December 1, 2018 to avoid the smoke from the tear gas grenades during a "yellow vest" demonstration in Marseille, she received one in the face. Admitted to the Timone hospital and then to the Conception hospital, she died the next day in the operating room, of cardiac arrest. At the time, prosecutor Xavier Tarabeux had stated "that at this stage, we could not establish a causal link between the injury and the death". A statement that provoked the outrage of the victim’s family.