Recent events brought attention to 2016 death in police custody of Adama Traore. FMTNews France
Police react to fireworks launched at them by protesters in Marseille on Saturday.
After a string of protests in recent days, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced the chokehold method “will be abandoned”. The impression given is that “everyone is nice except the police who are mean”, said Philippe Capon of the Unsa-Police union. This was in spite of one of the officers having admitted the young man had been pinned to the ground with their combined body weight, and a report commissioned by Traore’s family finding he had died due to the police intervention.
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