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Class Action Lawsuit Opened Over Racial Profiling by French Police

Associated Press

   PARIS - In a first for France, six nongovernmental organizations
   launched a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the French government
   for alleged systemic discrimination by police officers carrying out
   identity checks.

   The organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty
   International, contend that French police use racial profiling in ID
   checks, targeting Black people and people of Arab descent.

   They served Prime Minister Jean Castex and France's interior and
   justice ministers with formal legal notice of demands for concrete
   steps and deep law enforcement reforms to ensure that racial profiling
   does not determine who gets stopped by police.

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