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Published Wednesday, January 27, 2021 8:00AM EST Last Updated Wednesday, January 27, 2021 6:19PM EST PARIS - Three leading rights organizations joined with grassroots groups Wednesday to launch Frances first class action suit targeting the countrys massive police machine, contending that it lawfully propagates a culture leading to systemic discrimination in identity checks. The NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Open Society Justice I...

PARIS (AP) " In a first for France, six nongovernmental organizations launched a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the French government for alleged systemic discrimination by police officers carrying out identity checks. The organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, contend that French police use racial profiling in ID checks, targeting Black people and people of Arab descent. They served Prime Minister Jean Castex and Frances interior and justice minister...

PARIS (AP) — Three leading rights organizations joined with grassroots groups Wednesday...

Six organisations, including Amnesty, contend that French police use racial profiling in ID checks, targeting black people and those of Arab descent.

Class-action lawsuit: French police discriminate in checks | 2021/01/27

PARIS (AP) — In a first for France, six nongovernmental organizations launched a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the French government for alleged systemic discrimination by police officers carrying out identity checks. The organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, contend that French police use racial profiling in ID checks, targeting Black people and people of Arab descent. They served Prime Minister Jean Castex and France’s interior and justice minist...

The issue of racial profiling by French police has been debated for years, including but not only the practice of officers performing identity checks on young people who are often Black or of Arab descent and live in impoverished housing projects. Assa Traore, centre, sister of Adama Traore attends a demonstration against a security law that would restrict sharing images of police on Nov. 28, 2020 in Paris. Adama Traore was a Black man killed in police custody in France, whose case has mobilize...

Six organisations, including Amnesty, contend that French police use racial profiling in ID checks, targeting black people and those of Arab descent.

Paris In a first for France, six nongovernmental organizations launched a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the French government for alleged systemic discrimination by police officers carrying out identity checks. The organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, contend that French police use racial profiling in ID checks, targeting Black people and people of Arab descent. They served Prime Minister Jean Castex and France’s interior and justice ministers with f...

PARIS (AP) — In a first for France, six nongovernmental organizations launched a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the French government for alleged systemic discrimination by police officers carrying out identity checks. The organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, contend that French police use racial profiling in ID checks, targeting Black people and people of Arab descent. They served Prime Minister Jean Castex and France’s interior and justice minist...