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Unprecedented group action against the French state for racial profiling • FRANCE 24 English

FRANCE24, 22 Jul 2021
A group of #NGOs filed a class-action lawsuit against the #French state on Thursday over alleged #racial profiling by the police, an issue that has poisoned relations between the police and minority youths.
In January, six NGOs, including Human Rights Watch and the French branch of #Amnesty International, had warned they would take legal action if the government did not take steps to end what they called discriminatory identity checks within four months.

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