In the aftermath of similar rallies in Paris and other French cities, at least 2,000 people gathered Wednesday evening in downtown Toulouse, in front of the Charles-de-Gaulle square. Organized at the call of the collective Comité Vérité et Justice 31, this event also aimed to denounce police violence and racism.
On their mask, many people, often young, had written "I can't breath", in reference to George Floyd, a Black American who died last week repeating this sentence while he was kept on the ground under the knee of a white policeman.
Several thousand people gathered at #Capitole #Toulouse #BlackLivesMatter #JusticePourAdama pic.twitter.com/gcg1cHM2Gq
- François Guinle (@FrGuinle) June 3, 2020To the applause, the participants chanted "Justice for Adama" (Traoré), a young 24-year-old black man who died in Val-d'Oise in 2016 after his arrest.
After the rally, demonstrators marched to the court. Clashes then broke out. Three people were arrested: two for arson and one for throwing projectiles at the police.
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