Police brutality protests in Paris suburbs
Protests continue in the Paris suburbs over the assault of a young black man allegedly sodomized with a police baton.
The police accused “several hundred” individuals of various “acts of violence and damage.”
The rioting capped a week of nightly clashes in the northern Paris suburb over the treatment of Theo, a 22-year-old youth worker, who claims that a police officer sodomized him with his baton after a stop-and-search check in a housing estate.
One officer has been charged with rape over the affair, and three others with assault. All four have been suspended from their duties.
Theo’s case has revived long-simmering frustrations over policing in immigrant communities, where young men accuse the police of repeatedly targeting them in aggressive stop-and-search operations and using excessive force during arrests.
The police, for their part, complain of being drawn into a cat-and-mouse game with delinquents and drug dealers operating out of housing estates. (AFP)
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