France’s highest administrative authority has rejected an effort by rights campaigners to end what they allege is a generalized practice by French police of targeting Black people and people of Arab descent for stops and checks.
FILE - View of the Conseil d'Etat, France's top administrative court, in Paris, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. France's highest administrative authority on Wednesday Oct.11 2023 rejected an effort by rights campaigners to end what they allege is a systemic and generalized practice by French police of targeting Black people and people of Arab descent for stops and checks.
– France’s highest administrative authority on Wednesday rejected an effort by rights campaigners to end what they allege is aLocal grassroots organizations and international rights groups had hoped that a favorable ruling fromcould force deep reforms within French law enforcement to end racial profiling.
In its decision, the Council of State said witness testimony and other evidence presented in the class-action case established that French police do subject people to checks because of their physical characteristics. It also said such checks don't appear to be isolated cases and are harmful to the people targeted. But the ruling said discriminatory checks aren't systemic or generalized.
The Council of State is France's ultimate arbiter on the use of power by authorities. The plaintiffs' lawsuit, France’s first class-action case against police, was filed in 2021. It included a 220-page file that was chock full of examples of racial profiling by French police. The complaint was filed by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Open Society Justice Initiative and three grassroots organizations that work with youth.The nongovernmental organizations took the case to the Council of State after the government failed to meet a four-month deadline to respond to the opening salvo in the class-action suit.Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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