Thousands of people demonstrated in the French capital yesterday evening Tuesday to protest against police violence and to demand accountability for the killers of Adama Traore, the young black man who died in 2016 while being questioned by the police. This demonstration was clearly affected by the demonstrations in the United States in protest against the killing of George Floyd by the police during his arrest.
This demonstration, which took place in front of the Palace of Justice, the largest court in the capital, is part of a wave of global protests against the phenomena of racism and excessive police violence against minorities, after the killing of African-American George Floyd while he was arrested in the city of Minneapolis in the United States, when a police officer pressed his knee on Floyd's neck until He died of suffocation.
Demonstrators in the French capital raised the slogans of "Black Lives Mater" (English: black lives are valuable), "I-Breath" (English: I can't breathe) and "Adama's justice."
Some confrontations and stone-throwing occurred during the demonstration, and some protesters set fire to garbage containers before the police dispersed them to the side streets of the Place de Clichy, where the Palace of Justice is located.