Tensions persist following riots over the police killing of a teenager. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced the ban on Wednesday of any protest “directly linked to the riots” that followed the shooting of 17-year-old Nahel during a traffic stop.
A video of a police officer shooting the teen at point-blank range went viral, fuelling old tensions over police brutality and racism in the country. An administrative court in Paris upheld the ban on Saturday, after a last-ditch effort by protest organisers to appeal against the decision. “Given the very recent nature of the serious riots”, a lack of police availability, and the risk of disturbances, the judges ruled in an order seen by AFP that banning the protest was the only option.
Ms Lucie Simon, a lawyer for the protest organisers – made up of a grouping against police violence and other associations – accused the authorities of “impeding all channels of democratic expression of perfectly legitimate demands”.to join a memorial rally in central Paris on Saturday for a young black man who died in police custody in 2016, while protests against police brutality took place around France.
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