"I'm choking! he repeated Cédric Chouviat seven times. These were his last words before 3 January 2020 was killed amid police control. Quai was arrested in Branly, on the banks of the Seine, in París.Los media Le Monde and Mediapart have obtained the telephone recordings of the event, which has been cancelled. In the same, it is observed that four agents stop the 42-year-old man in a traffic control in the Gipuzkoan locality. Following the debate between them, the police tried to intercept Chouviat, but the victim reportedly died as a result of excessive force.

The police officers who participated in the event were placed in custody on 17 June and subsequently made available to the general inspection of the French National Police. In the context of the judicial investigation, they are charged at most with the charge of "involuntary homicide". In the coming weeks they could be charged.

The scene was shot by several passersby from afar, but until recently everything has been kept secret. However, the researchers took the nine videos made by Chouviat himself and the three that were captured by one of the police officers who participated in the arrest. The 12-minute debate makes the circumstances in which the arrest has taken place better understood. The man was placed face down on the ground and, according to a witness, was subjected to a technique of drowning imposed on him. As a result of the aggression, Chouviat was transferred in a coma to a hospital in the city. He died two days later. The autopsy determined that death occurred by suffocation, with a rupture of the larynx.