03.07.2023
Riots sweep across the cities of France after the police shoot teenager “Nael M.” During a traffic check on the 27th of last June. However, this is not the first time that lives have been lost at the hands of the French police.
In 2022 alone, 138 cases of French police shooting at moving cars were documented, while 13 people were killed in crossfire while on patrol.
antiquities The murder of the teenager, “Nael M.” The 17-year-old in the suburb of Nanterre, near Paris, witnessed a series of riots and demonstrations against possible racist police violence. Not all fatal police killings have sparked such outrage in France, but there are many alleged racist killings that are still in the memory of the French to this day.
October 27, 2005: Zed Bina and Bona Traoré in Clichy soo bois
Ten young men are on their way home from a soccer match, including 15-year-old Bona Traore and 17-year-old Zed Bina. Around the same time, the police receive a call for help about breaking into a construction site in the Parisian suburb. While searching for the perpetrators, the police approach to interrogate the young men, so Traoré, Bina and their friend Mohitine Alton flee, because they did not have their personal documents at that moment.
Police reinforcements were called in and a manhunt ensued. The three teens run into a fenced area, and hide in an Electricity Substation (EDF), where Traore and Bina die of electrocution, while their friend survives but not without severe burns.
On October 29, 2005, the people of Clichy-sous-Bois commemorate the two young men who died
A recorded message to the police sparked controversy: “If they go to the site of the power station, I don’t care much about their lives.” This is what one of the tracking officers said when he saw the youths climb the fence toward the site of an electric substation (EDF).
The officer and a female colleague were prosecuted for failing to provide assistance. Ten years later, a criminal court in Rennes acquitted them of the case with a final, non-appealable ruling. The court found that there was no immediate danger to the teens and that the police officers had acted proportionately.
Demonstration for Lamine Dieng ten years after his death on 17 June 2017 in Paris
June 17, 2007: Lamin Deng Fei Belleville
After an argument between Lamin Deng and his girlfriend, I got caught the police The 25-year-old was put in a police car. According to Amnesty International, five officers held him tightly and pressed his body and face to the ground, handcuffing him for half an hour, until Dieng lost consciousness and suffocated.
Thirteen years later, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ordered France to pay 145,000 euros ($158,000) to the Dieng family to end the proceedings and avoid a new conviction.
Protesters called for “justice for Ali Ziri” at a demonstration in Paris in June 2017
June 9 June 2009: Ali Ziri V.I Argentoi
The 69-year-old Algerian was visiting France to buy wedding gifts for his son. And have some alcohol with a friend after shopping. When they were searched and alcohol tested by a police patrol, Ali Ziri resisted, according to the police report. Police arrested the drunk man and put him in a police car, handcuffed with his head between his knees, on their way to the police station.
Ziri vomited several times, fell into a coma and later died in hospital. The cause of death was: suffocation. Once again, the European Court of Human Rights condemns France for “negligence”. Ziri’s daughter receives 30,000 euros in moral compensation and 7,500 euros in costs and expenses.
There are many similarities between the case of George Floyd’s death in the United States and the case of Adama Traoré in France
July 19, 2016: Adama Traore in Beaumont-sur-Wise
The 24-year-old, who has a Malian father and mother, ran away from the police during a chase until police officers eventually caught him and pinned him to the knees. According to the arrest report, Adama Traoré said at the time that he could not breathe. Traoré died when the ambulance, called by the police, arrived.
In the Adama Traoré case, there are no witnesses or video recordings. The exact cause of death remains disputed, with the court believing that there was a preexisting illness, while an autopsy report commissioned by the Traoré family concluded that he had suffocated due to exposure to excessive external force.
Demonstration in front of the Eiffel Tower where Cedric Chauviat died of suffocation
January 5, 2020: Cedric Shufiat in Paris
The 42-year-old food delivery driver was riding his scooter near the Eiffel Tower when police stopped him for using a mobile phone while driving. A routine check turned into a scuffle in which the four officers pinned Cedric Chauviat to the ground.
Cedric Chauviat, a father of five, shouted “I’m suffocating” seven times as officers detained him while wearing a scooter helmet. But the officers did not care, and Shufiyyat lost consciousness and died 48 hours later in the hospital. The cause of death was suffocation due to complications from a broken larynx.
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“I can not breathe”
Protests, angry at police brutality against black people for decades, quickly spread from Minneapolis to other cities across the United States. The Midwest protests began earlier this week, after a police officer handcuffed George Floyd and knelt on his neck. And he continued despite the screams of Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, that he could not breathe, until he died.
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“gentle giant”
Floyd grew up in Houston, Texas, and moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2014 for work. Before his death, he was looking for a job after being laid off from his job as a guard at a fast food restaurant due to the closure measures due to the outbreak of the Corona virus. His friends described him as a gentle giant due to his two-meter stature.
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From peacefulness to violence
Most of the protests last Saturday were peaceful, but a number turned violent as night fell. In Washington, D.C., the Republican Guard was deployed in front of the White House. And in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, at least one person was killed in a shooting that police said they were not involved in. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a number of police officers were injured, while two police cars hit a crowd of people in New York City.
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Vandalized and looted shops
In Los Angeles, California, protesters confronted police officers, chanting “Black Lives Matter!”, before being attacked by police with sticks and rubber bullets. And in some cities, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York, Chicago and Minneapolis, protests have turned into riots, with some looting and vandalizing stores.
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“When the looting begins…”
President Donald Trump threatened to send in the military to quell the protests, saying his “administration will stop mob violence once and for all.” Tensions rose across the country over Trump’s threat, which he blamed on groups he claimed were far-left. But Minnesota Governor Tim Walls told reporters he had heard several unconfirmed reports of white supremacist groups fueling the violence.
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The media is under fire
Security forces targeted many journalists covering the protests. Among them is CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and his crew, who were arrested last Friday while covering the events in Minneapolis. Many journalists have been hit by shells or detained while on air. DW reporter Stephen Simmons was shot dead by police while covering the unrest over the weekend.
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Anger transcends us
Global protests in Canada, which borders the United States of America to the north, where thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Vancouver and Toronto. In the German capital, Berlin, American expatriates and other demonstrators gathered outside the US embassy. In the British capital, London, demonstrators knelt in Trafalgar Square before marching past Parliament and stopping in front of the US Embassy.
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At Trump’s front door
Protests raged in the US capital, Washington, after the 11 o’clock curfew took effect. More than 1,000 protesters gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House, and some bonfires were set outside the president’s residence. The New York Times reported that the CIA moved Trump to a bunker as a precaution.
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Curfews in major US cities
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Detroit, Washington D.C. and other US cities extended curfews as protests entered the sixth night. The western state of Arizona imposed a statewide curfew for a week after protesters clashed with police. About 5,000 Republican Guard soldiers have been deployed in 15 US states.
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Trump and the Bible
In the face of renewed protests on Sunday, Trump threatened to deploy the military if states fail to “defend their own residents.” Trump then walked from his residence to a church in the park, where he held a Bible aloft during a photo opportunity. This behavior angered Bishop Marian Edgar Bodie after Trump visited her church without prior permission and without praying in the church.
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Peaceful demonstrations
Despite the spread of violence, several protests in the United States remained peaceful. In Times Square in Manhattan, New York, protesters lay on the ground with their hands behind their backs, mimicking the position Floyd was in when he was killed. Although some protesters resorted to violence, many US mayors and governors praised the level of protests.
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Police officers kneel in front of the demonstrators
But despite the escalation of violence, there are instances in which demonstrators and police officers in the United States have shown solidarity. Videos circulating on social media showed police officers kneeling in solidarity with the protesters. The kneeling refers to former NFL football player Colin Kaepernick, who protested in this pose during the American anthem against racism and police violence against black people in the United States. Christian Kobler/S.A
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