PARIS: Around 2,000 people defied a ban to join a memorial rally in central Paris on Saturday (Jul 8) 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. Nationwide, aroun
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.Seven years after the death of Adama Traore, his sister had planned to lead an annual commemorative march north of Paris in Persan and Beaumont-sur-Oise.
She instead attended a rally in central Paris's Place de la Republique to tell"the whole world that our dead have the right to exist, even in death". "They authorise marches by neo-Nazis but they don't allow us to march. France cannot give us moral lessons. Its police is racist and violent," she said.
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