Three police officers are to be tried for the involuntary homicide of Cedric Chouviat

Three police officers are to be tried for the involuntary homicide of Cedric Chouviat

 Thibaud MORITZ

The family of a man who died during a 2020 police arrest in Paris will seek to hold the French state liable for his death, their lawyers said on Wednesday.

The case of Cedric Chouviat, who died in January 2020 after policemen tackled him to the ground, has drawn comparisons to the death several months later in the United States of George Floyd.

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