Adama Traoré and Steve Maia Caniço were both 24 when they died.
Adama, a black man from Persan, near Paris, was celebrating his birthday on 19 July 2016. He was arrested for fleeing police control, running because he didn’t have his ID. He suffocated in the police station, handcuffed, under the weight of three officers who were immobilising him.
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