RFI/AFP: Clashes at mass Paris protest over black man's death in custody
Some 20,000 people defied a ban in Paris on Tuesday to protest the 2016 death of a young black man in French police custody, some clashing with police and using slogans like those used in the demonstrations raging in the US.
The protesters rallied outside a Paris court despite a coronavirus ban on gatherings of more than 10 people, before clashes erupted involving tear gas, rubber bullets, burning barricades and projectiles.
They were protesting after the release of two differing medical reports into the cause of Adama Traore's death, whose case has long been a rallying cry against police brutality in France.
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