Five years after the death of Steve Maia Caniço, the commissioner's trial opens in Rennes

Commissioner Grégoire Chassaing has been on trial since Monday in Rennes for the death of Steve Maia Caniço, who fell into the Loire during a police operation in 2019, on the evening of the Music Festival. On the first day of the trial, his mother and uncle were heard.

Accused of having committed several “characterized faults”, Grégoire Chassaing, at the head of the police intervention concomitant with the drowning of the young man in 2019 in Nantes, is being tried as of this Monday, June 10 for “involuntary manslaughter”. The defense intends to argue that the fall was accidental.