カナダの先住民女性、警官に撃たれ死亡　先住民団体は独立調査要求

【モントリオールＡＦＰ＝時事】カナダ東部ニューブランズウィック州エドマンズトンで、先住民女性のシャンテル・ムーアさん（26）が警察官によって射殺される出来事があり、先住民団体は6日、独立調査を行うよう求めた。（写真は資料写真）
　カナダの先住民を代表する５団体の一つ、先住民会議（ＣＰＡ）は、「シャンテル・ムーアさんの死亡と、警察活動や司法システムが先住民族に示す、現在も続く組織的な偏見や差別への公開調査」を要求した。
　ムーアさんは４日、健康状態を確認するために親族が呼んだ警察官によって射殺された。
　エドマンズトン警察は、ムーアさんが警官を刃物で脅したと証言。遺族によると、警官がムーアさんを制圧するため計５回発砲したという。
　ＣＰＡのロバート・ベルトラン代表は、「健康状態を確認する際に起きた（ムーアさんの）悲劇的な殺害によって、カナダの先住民族たちが、警察活動や司法システムと関わる際に非常に異なる状況に直面し続けていることが、すべてのカナダ人にありありと示された」と指摘した。
　当局がムーアさんの死亡に関し捜査を立ち上げる中、ファーストネーションズ議会（ＡＦＮ）のペリー・ベルガルド代表は、中立的な第三者による調査を行い、なぜ命に関わる武器が使用されたか、警官の対応に人種が関係していたか解明すべきだと指摘。
　「助けを求めているのに、どうして検視官を呼ぶことになるのか？ こうしたことは決して起きてはならない」「人種が警察の対応に何らかの影響をもたらしたか、ここまで極端ではない武力が用いられるべきだったのではないか、われわれは解明する必要がある」と訴えた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/06/08-13:04）

Canadian aboriginal groups on Saturday called for an independent probe into the death of an indigenous woman who was shot by a police officer called in for a wellness check.
The Congress of Aboriginal People (CPA), one of five national groups representing indigenous Canadians, called for a public investigation into the death of Chantel Moore and the ongoing systemic bias and racism that policing services and the justice system displays towards Indigenous peoples.
Moore, 26, was shot dead Thursday by a police officer in Edmundston, in the eastern province of New Brunswick. A relative had called police to check Moore's health.
Edmundston police said the woman had threatened the officer with a knife. According to the family, the officer fired five times to subdue her.
Moore's tragic killing... during a wellness check has vividly shown all Canadians that Indigenous peoples in Canada continue to face a very different set of circumstances when interacting with the policing and justice systems in Canada, said CPA National Chief Robert Bertrand.
While officials have opened a probe into Moore's death, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), Perry Bellegarde, said the shooting must be investigated by an impartial third party to determine why lethal force was used and whether race was a factor in the officer's response.
How does a call for help turn into a call for the coroner? This should never happen, Bellegarde said.
We need to find out whether race played any role in the police response and whether a less extreme use of force should have been used. This young First Nations mother and daughter did not need to die.
Separately, in the western state of Alberta, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam accused Canadian Royal Mounted Police of beating him in March during a routine check of his automobile registration.
The RCMP said he was resisting arrest.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke Friday about discrimination in Canada before participating in a demonstration in Ottawa against racism and police violence following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed by police in the United States.
Over the past weeks, we've seen a large number of Canadians suddenly awaken to the fact that the discrimination that is a lived reality for far too many of our fellow citizens is something that needs to end, he said.