Three French police officers were arrested on Tuesday over the death of a 27-year-old man in the southern city of Marseille in early July during nationwide rioting, prosecutors said.
Over 740 people have been given real prison sentences in France after the recent riots over the killing of a 17-year-old by police, French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said Wednesday.
Unlike their European counterparts, newer waves of immigrants have refused to integrate with the French social order and insist on maintaining their distinct identity
Violent protests have become a common sight across France. Since 2017, the French police have been heavily militarised in the name of serving the public but it has made the secular republic a republic of fear, at least for the people of colour
While the George Floyd riots may be over in America, they seem to have just started in France. “It almost seems like France is experiencing their own ‘Summer of Love’ that infamously happened after George Floyd’s death on video went viral,” Lauren Chen comments. French police are under the activists.