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After months of government silence, leading rights organizations and grassroots groups on Thursday took France’s first class-action lawsuit targeting the nation’s powerful police machine to the highest administrative authority to fix what they contend is a culture of systemic discrimination in identity checks.
The 220-page file, chock full of examples of racial profiling by French police, was delivered to the Council of State, the ultimate arbiter on the use of power by authorities. The complaint was lodged by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Open Society Justice Initiative and three grassroots organizations that work with youth.
The unprecedented move underlines longstanding complaints about alleged police abuse of identity checks, particularly in neighborhoods where people of color reside. Critics have said such checks, which are sometimes rough and often carried out multiple times on the same person, can mark youth for life and worsen
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