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Rights Groups: France Using Police Fines to Harass Black and Arab Youth
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Charges of police discrimination are at the heart of a report published by Human Rights Watch. Based on forty-two testimonies, it reveals repeated fines that would have been particularly targeted...
Rights groups: France using police fines to harass Black and Arab youth
French police are using on-the-spot fixed-penalty fines as a new tool for racial profiling, trapping Black and Arab youth in debt reaching tens of thousands of euros, Human Rights Watch, (RE)CLAIM and Maison Communautaire pour un Développement Solidaire (MCDS) said in a joint statement Wednesday. The report documents police issuing criminal fines for alleged noise nuisance, littering and “illegal discharge of unsanitary liquids” to boys and youn…
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