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Calm is maintained at a memorial rally for Adama Traore, a young black man who died in police custody. Read more at straitstimes.com.

PARIS - Around 2,000 people defied a ban to join a memorial rally in central Paris on Saturday for a young black man who died in police custody, while marches took place throughout France to denounce police brutality, as tensions run high after days of rioting engulfed the country.his sister had planned to lead an annual commemorative march north of Paris in Persan and Beaumont-sur-Oise.

“The government has decided to add fuel to the fire” and “not to respect the death of my little brother”, she said. “We are marching for the youth to denounce police violence. They want to hide our deaths,” she said at the rally, also attended by several lawmakers. The Paris rally had also been banned on the grounds that it could disrupt public order and a legal case has been opened against Ms Assa Traore for organising the event, police said.

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