Police violence: "The reaction in France is not created by American mobilizations"

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A demonstrator with the acronym #BLM, for #BlackLivesMatter ("The life of blacks counts"), during the Parisian demonstration of June 2, 2020. REUTERS / Gonzalo Fuentes

By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow

Thousands of protesters against police violence gathered Tuesday evening in front of the Paris courthouse. A rally organized, also and above all, in memory of Adama Traoré, whose family accuses a gendarme of having caused death in 2016. For four years, his relatives have been struggling and the Traoré case has become emblematic of police violence. Violence brought to the fore by American news. The analysis of Jacques De Maillard, professor of political science at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and deputy director of the Center for Sociological Research on Law and Criminal Institutions (Cesdip).

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“  In France, the question of police violence is not triggered by current events in the United States. It is a little the detonator [but] the debate settled.  "

Jacques De Maillard is the author of Sociology of the police , with Armand Collin.

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