2023-09-23 16:38:47
In France, several thousand people took to the streets once morest police violence on Saturday. There were around 100 events across the country. At the rally in Paris, a police car was attacked with iron bars, the French news channel BFTMV reported, citing the police. Officials are said to have been injured. Organizations called for the protests three months following the death of a young person during a police check.
The organizers complain regarding systemic racism, police violence and growing social inequality, from which residents of the suburbs in particular suffer. After the death of 17-year-old Nahel in a police shot at the end of June, there were days of serious unrest in the suburbs of France. Video images showed that the teenager did not try to avoid the officers during the police check, as they had initially stated.
Since then, President Emmanuel Macron’s government has neither presented a concept for improving the situation in the socially disadvantaged suburbs, nor has the police behavior been critically analyzed.
According to a report by the Inspectorate General of the National Police (IGPN), a total of 38 people died and 66 were injured in police operations in 2022 (compared to 37 dead and 79 injured in 2021).
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