PARIS, June 13 — Thousands of people gathered across France today to protest at racism and police violence as public anger grows after a raft of complaints against officers and in the wake of the death of George Floyd in the United States. Several thousand people congregated in central Paris...
Demonstrators attend a protest against police brutality and the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, at the Place de la Republique square in Paris, France June 13, 2020. — Reuters pic
Several thousand people congregated in central Paris mid-afternoon to answer a call to protest by a pressure group representing Adama Traore, a young black man who died in police custody in 2016. Traore’s sister Assa Traore called on those attending the rally to “denounce the denial of justice, denounce social, racial, police violence,” renewing a call for an investigation into her sibling’s death.
Binta Kamara, 18, said she had come “to support black people, minorities, to show solidarity. I am young and the future belongs to us. We have to change things.”
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