The demonstration was held outside the Tribunal de Paris, the capital's main courthouse, amid growing global outrage over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis
When cries of"Justice for Adama" started to die down on Tuesday evening and the demonstration came to an end, some were seen pelting riot police with debris and setting fire to nearby buildings.
Similar tensions broke out in Marseille amid fury that the Traore case is still unresolved four years after this death. Investigations are still ongoing, with medical reports proving inconclusive.Mr Traore's death is being likened to Mr Floyd's as a symbol of police brutality. Dominique Sopo of the French anti-racism charity SOS Racisme said:"When you refuse to treat the problem of racism... it leads to what we see in the United States. The case of George Floyd echoes what we fear in France."Mr Floyd, 46, was unarmed when a white police officer called Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on his neck inHe died shortly after, resulting in Chauvin facing a count of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Protests over his death quickly spread across the US and beyond, with many turning violent and a number of people shot, despite his
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