The human rights Defender denounces discrimination in a police station paris

The inhabitants of the 12th arrondissement of Paris denounce since 2015 of the facts of harassment to be discriminatory by law enforcement officials.

police officers from the 12th district of Paris have discriminated against a group of young people in a systemic way, according to a document of the public Defender of rights, who wishes to warn against generalization of these findings to the whole of the forces of law and order.

These observations, published by Mediapart and of which AFP had a copy, have been submitted to the court by Jacques Toubon in the context of a lawsuit brought by several young people from the minister of the Interior to "defective functioning of the public service of the police".

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the 17 inhabitants of the 12th arrondissement of paris denounce since 2015 of the facts of harassment to be discriminatory by law enforcement officials. In 2018, three police officers from the 12th district of Paris, has been convicted for a criminal offence in this case, the sentence of which they have appealed. It is in the context of another procedure, civil rights Defender has been entered.

"A system of controls discriminatory"

The police intervention referred to, he writes, "highlighting a series of controls, checks of identity, pat-downs, searches and conducted at the police station, which occurred outside of the legal framework and are accompanied by sprains, common in the procedure, which aimed particularly to the complainants, all of the young people of the district Erard-Rozanoff of north african origin and african".

"I have recognized a systemic discrimination because there was in place a system of controls discriminate in this district with respect to this group of young people", explained to AFP Jacques Toubon, "but that doesn't mean that, systematically, the police discriminates against them".

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"The decision I made, as all the ones I take," said Jacques Toubon, "is a decision of the case, which is taken after long instructions are contradictory and therefore that has nothing to do with the context" of protests against police violence.

These observations are the "facts very old", he added, the day after an event that saw 20,000 people gather in Paris to denounce police violence and ask for Justice for Adama", a young black man died following an arrest in 2016 by policemen, that the family accuses of being responsible for the death. "I don't want any controversy whatsoever in this kind of business", he concluded.