Several French cities today witnessed demonstrations in which tens of thousands participated, in protest against the violent practices of the French police and racism practiced against ethnic minorities in French society, organized by the family of a young French man of African descent who was killed during his arrest in 2016 and interspersed with clashes and riots.
Agence France-Presse reported that the French capital, Paris, witnessed clashes on the sidelines of a banned demonstration due to the crisis of the emerging Corona virus, but the organizers insisted on making it to denounce the police violence in a protest that falls in the context of what the United States witnessed a week ago in protest against the killing of black citizen George Floyd asphyxia under the knee. White policeman in the US city of Minneapolis.
On the sidelines of the demonstration that took place in front of the court headquarters in the north-east of Paris, clashes took place between the security forces and the protesters, including throwing projectiles, erecting barricades and barricades and using tear gas canisters.
During the demonstration, Asa Traore, sister of Adama Traore, a young African-American who was killed while arrested in the French capital in 2016, addressed the demonstrators by saying: “Today when we fight for George Floyd, we fight for Adama Traore.” The demonstrators replied by saying “revolution.” And “everyone hates the police.”
The demonstrators held banners, some of which read in English “The lives of blacks are important” and in French “Silence .. suffocation” and “Let us put an end to the colonization of the police.”
And the Paris demonstration that France witnessed last night to protest the police violence was not the same, as several large demonstrations took place in French cities, including one in Lille in northern France, and another in Marseille, southern France.
The confrontations between the protesters and the police in Paris included throwing projectiles at the security forces, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, and sporadic clashes erupted between the security forces and groups of protesters who threw stones at the police.
Soon the adjacent streets turned into a battlefield as protesters erected barriers, burned bicycles, pelted police cars with stones and bottles, and set fire to a number of garbage containers and barricades. In the neighboring Clichy area, protesters smashed the windows of the municipal police station.
These demonstrations took place on the day when a medical report prepared at the request of the Traore family accused the police of causing his death.
The streets of the French capital, Paris, also witnessed violent clashes between police and protesters, after demonstrations continued for the second consecutive day in support of anti-racist protests in the United States of America.
The media showed the French police, firing gas and rubber bullets, towards thousands of anti-racist demonstrators in the squares and streets of Paris and in front of the American embassy to condemn the murder of African American citizen George Floyd chanting the phrase “I cannot breathe”.
The demonstrators raised banners demanding to fight racist thought rampant in American society and justice for the oppressed, warning of the consequences of the spread of racism in France, especially after recent reports of racist acts by the police.
For the seventh day in a row, the wave of massive protests in the United States of America, and the chaos and violence that followed it, after the death of George Floyd, an African citizen, suffocated after the policeman, Derek Schofen, perched with his knee in his neck in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the demonstrations included about 140 American cities. Outside the United States.
Source : Sana
