Pak Sahafat – Thousands of people came to the streets in different French cities and protested against police brutality.
According to the Pak Sahafat News Agency quoting from Tagus Shaw newspaper, about three months after the death of a teenager during a police search, thousands of people in France took to the streets again, demonstrating against police brutality across the country. Protesters clashed with police in Paris.
In this way, thousands of people took to the streets again in France against police brutality, and about 100 protest events were held across the country. These protests were held about three months after the death of a teenager during a police inspection near Paris, with the call of several organizations. They complained of systemic racism, police brutality, and growing social inequality, which particularly affected suburbanites.
These demands included stricter laws on the use of firearms by the police, the creation of an independent investigative body into crimes within the police and comprehensive government investment in socially disadvantaged areas of the city.
The French news channel BFTMV reported, quoting the police, that a police car was attacked by demonstrators with iron bars during the Paris protests. It is said that some police forces were injured in these clashes.
Tensions also arose when the windows of a bank were broken by protesters. The police brought the bank employees who were in trouble to a safe place. Elsewhere, protesters surrounded a police car, prompting an officer to get out and brandish his weapon.
After the death of a 17-year-old teenager in a police shooting at the end of June, there were days of serious and tense unrest in the French countryside. The video images showed that the murdered teenager did not try to run away from the officers during the police investigation, as they had initially announced.
Since then, the government of French President Emmanuel Macron has not presented a plan to improve the situation in the socially disadvantaged suburbs, nor has the behavior of the police been critically analyzed. According to the report of the Inspectorate General of the National Police (IGPN), in 2022, a total of 38 people died in police operations and 66 people were injured.
On June 27, Nahel Marzouq, a 17-year-old French-Algerian citizen, was shot dead by police in the western suburbs of Paris.
During several nights in a row, France witnessed massive demonstrations and riots that led to the arrest of more than 3,000 people across the country; In response to the riots, the mayors of the affected cities organized rallies in the town halls to condemn the violence, looting and destruction of infrastructure.
The shooting also sparked a debate over police use of deadly force, with left-wing lawmakers calling for repeal or revision of a 2017 law that made it easier for officers to shoot at moving vehicles.
After the riots in early July, more than 900 young people across France were convicted in standard speed trials.