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☆ An Explosive Case of Police Violence in the Paris Suburbs Ends With the Conviction of 3 Officers
  + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Associated Press | Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +3 min
All three officers received suspended prison sentences. “It’s a decision ... that we take as a victory,” said Antoine Vey, Luhaka’s lawyer, according to the daily Le Monde. The incident was followed by a week of protests in suburbs around Paris, many degenerating into violence. In the case of Théo Luhaka, Le Monde reported that Castelain, the officer who used the “telescopic baton,” was also banned from carrying a weapon or patrolling the streets for five years. The other two officers received similar bans for two years.
Persons: Théo Luhaka, “, ”, Antoine Vey, Luhaka, Marc, Antoine Castelain, ” Le, Thibault de Montbrial, Nahel, Le Monde Organizations: PARIS, Bois Locations: Paris, Aulnay, Bobigny, France
☆ French Police Officer Convicted in High-Profile Abuse Case
  + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Catherine Porter | More About Catherine Porter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A police officer who brutalized a 22-year-old Black man with an expandable baton during an arrest seven years ago was convicted by a French court on Friday of “intentional violence” in one of the country’s highest-profile cases of police abuse. The young man, Théo Luhaka, sustained a four-inch tear to his rectum after the police subdued him during an identity check while he was cutting through a known drug-dealing zone in his housing project in a suburb northeast of Paris. Two other officers who assisted in the arrest were also found guilty at the court in Bobigny, a suburb northeast of Paris, in a decision that was, however, unlikely to fully satisfy either police unions or anti-police brutality activists. The two other officers were sentenced to three-month suspended sentences. The sentences were less than what prosecutors had requested.
Persons: Théo Luhaka Locations: Paris, Bobigny
☆ Riots in France Highlight a Vicious Cycle Between Police and Minorities
  + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Catherine Porter | Constant Méheut | More About Catherine Porter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Years before France was inflamed with anger at the police killing of a teenager during a traffic stop, there was the notorious Théo Luhaka case. Mr. Luhaka was wrestled to the ground by three police officers, who hit him repeatedly and sprayed tear gas in his face. When it was over, he was bleeding from a four inch tear in his rectum, caused by one of the officers’ expandable batons. Mr. Luhaka’s housing project, and others around Paris, erupted in fury. He was held up as a symbol of what activists had been denouncing for years: discriminatory policing that violently targets minority youth, particularly in France’s poor areas.
Persons: Luhaka Locations: France, Black, Paris
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