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    TexMec Senior Member Louis VI the Fat's Avatar
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    Australia, the UK, the USA? Your police brutality is as nothing compared to the depths of depravity consistently reached by the French police.

    For those interested, Amnesty International published an utterly damning report yesterday.

    The most devastating find is the policy of charging victims of police violence with criminal offences if they dare to file a complain afterwards.

    Newspapers are full of stories of people being fined thousands of euros for attacking police battons with their forehead.
    Unlawful killings, beatings, racial abuse and excessive use of force by law enforcement officials are prohibited under international law in all circumstances. Yet in France, reports of such human rights violations are rarely investigated effectively and those responsible seldom brought to justice, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.

    Amnesty International’s report Public Outrage: police officers above the law in France, condemns the fact that allegations of police ill-treatment, racial abuse and excessive use of force continue while procedures for investigating such allegations are still failing to live up to the standards required by international law. The organization notes the increasing trend for people who are the victims of or witnesses to ill-treatment by law enforcement officials find themselves charged with the criminal offences of insulting or assaulting a police officer (“outrage” and “rebellion”).

    The numerous cases that Amnesty International has researched in the course of preparing this report show that although the victims of ill-treatment and other human rights violations include men and women of all age groups, the vast majority of complaints concern French citizens from ethnic minorities or foreign nationals.
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