“As soon as my son died, the institutional machine was set up to prevent me from knowing the truth.” In a video on Facebook, the father of Souheil el Khalfaoui once again calls for the opening of a judicial investigation into the death of his son, killed by the police in Marseille on August 4, 2021 during a road check.
“The institutions do not hear us, I need you all to get the truth”, he says, announcing three days mobilization this Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Old Port and the Canebière. According to him, the IGPN has finished its investigation but “has still not transmitted it to the prosecution”.
A fresco at the Belle de Mai
These three days of mobilization will end with a large gathering on Sunday from 3 pm under the shade of the Old Port, to launch the operation “Vérité Pour Souheil, Vérité Pour Tous”.
Saturday at La Friche, a commemoration will take place in the presence of the family around a Swen fresco in memory of Souheil. It is in this district of the Belle de Mai that the facts took place, facts for which the police speak of “legitimate defense”. For the young man’s father, “the testimonies of residents and passers-by are very disturbing in more ways than one and contradict the official version of the facts. “