Rights groups take French racial profiling case to top body
By ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press
Published: July 22, 2021, 9:23am
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Issa Coulibaly, head of Pazapas, a youth association in eastern Paris poses during an interview of the Associated-Press in Paris, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. After four months of silence from the government, leading rights organizations and grassroots groups are taking France's first class action law suit 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. (AP Photo/Alex Turnbull)Photo Gallery
PARIS — 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.
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