A new laboratory based in France needs your support to continue its investigations into police violence
The question of the use of violence by the state is a major source of debate in today’s France. From the working class districts to the city centers where demonstrations take place, images and accounts of police violence are flooding our media landscape. Yet the government is still turning a blind eye to the problem. Due to the difficulty of establishing responsibility, cases of state violence tend to be promptly dismissed. As for its victims, the procedures to obtain truth and justice all too often end up in deadlock.
This is the context in which INDEX intervenes. As an independent expertise laboratory, we investigate cases of state violence using new imaging and information technologies. Closely linked to Forensic Architecture through our team and our methods, INDEX continues its investigative work and grounds it in France.
The work of our team members has already clarified the circumstances of three deaths and two serious injuries, all of which have resulted from police operations:
–Investigation into Adama Traoré’s death (with Le Monde and Forensic Architecture)
–Investigation into Zineb Redouane’s death (with Disclose and Forensic Architecture)
–Investigation into Gaye Camara’s death (with Disclose)
–Investigation into Adnane Nassih’s mutilation (with Libération)
–Investigation into Jean-François Martin’s mutilation (report submitted to the court)
INDEX is the only structure in France to offer rigorous and truly independent expertise in cases of state violence. In that respect, we are receiving more and more requests from victims’ families, attorneys, as well as NGOs and media organisations. In order to be able to respond to these calls, we must develop our means of action.
It is why we are calling on your support today.
INDEX brings together researchers, architects, journalists, videographers and data modelers. So far, our capacity to work has relied on our members’ commitment to the issue at stake. Now, we need to cover the cost of the regular work of our team and to strengthen our human and technical capacities.
INDEX is an non-profit organisation (“association loi 1901”), established in France in October 2020. It is solely funded by donations from individuals or charitable foundations who wish to support us without conditions or compensations.
Before October 13, we need to raise at least 30,000 EUR in order to be able to run INDEX for another year and to cover the cost of three to five new investigations.
We are committed to disseminating our methods and techniques across civil society. This is why we are offering online training sessions on techniques of video analysis and 3D investigations, as rewards for your contributions.
Regardless of its amount, your contribution will help us carry on our work.
Learn more about our project and please consider supporting us today on our crowd-funding page.
