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‘A nation of prosecutors’: The French are suing the state to drive social change 67 shares 28/02/2021 - 13:27 A demonstrator holds a placard reading "No justice no peace" at a rally against police racism and brutality in Paris on June 13, 2020. © Benoit Tessier, Reuters 11 min President Emmanuel Macron recently lamented that the French have become “a nation of 66 million prosecutors”. He may have a point: Whether battling climate change or racial profiling by police, activists and o...

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 France's first class action suit targeting the country's 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 Initiative, allege that police target Black people and people of Arab descent in choosing who to st...

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 ministers

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.