French police use broad powers to conduct abusive identity checks on black and Arab young men and boys despite the absence of any evidence of wrongdoing, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
A police spokesman denounced the HRW report as a "caricature" of the force.
HRW warned in its report that unwarranted checks and intimate searches, on top of police insults, were damaging police-community relations.
"It's shocking that young black and Arab kids can be, and are, arbitrarily forced up against walls and manhandled by the police with no real evidence of wrongdoing," said HRW western Europe researcher Judith Sunderland. Full story...
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A police spokesman denounced the HRW report as a "caricature" of the force.
HRW warned in its report that unwarranted checks and intimate searches, on top of police insults, were damaging police-community relations.
"It's shocking that young black and Arab kids can be, and are, arbitrarily forced up against walls and manhandled by the police with no real evidence of wrongdoing," said HRW western Europe researcher Judith Sunderland. Full story...
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