Human rights monitors, including the Council of Europe criticized the French police for using Exaggerated force during the protests against President Emmanuel Macron pension Reformation.
arrested by the French authorities more from 450 people on Thursday in wildest day of demonstrations since start of the year against A bill to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
in days leading up At Thursday’s protests, rights groups voiced their concerns over “Arbitrary” and excessive arrests use of force by the police.
But the security officials defended their actions, saying they were responding to violent rioters and anarchist groups. who They claim to have repeatedly infiltrated French protesters to provoke clashes.
The French League for Human Rights accused the authorities of Undermining the right of Citizens should protest by making them disproportionate and dangerous use of public force. “
Authoritarian transformation of French state, brutal treatment of social Relationships through the police and violence of All kinds of impunity is a major scandal,” said league president Patrick Baudouin on Friday.
Rights groups have raised concerns over repeated use by the police of “boiler” also It’s called “trap and hold.” in United States, a crowd control tactic consisting of of cordon off protesters in a small area.
They sounded the alarm after reports from recent protests of Police detaining foreign schoolchildren, firing tear gas on protesters into water boilers, and even hurt a man so badly he had to have his testicles amputated.
council of Europe criticizes “excessive” policing force
the Council of Europe – the continent leading human rights monitor – on Friday criticized the “excessive” French police use of forceduring the demonstrations against who is not popular pension Reformation.
There were violent incidents, some of which targeted the forces of Law and order” its commissioner for Dunja Mijatović said about human rights.
But sporadic verbs of violence of Certain demonstrators or other disgraceful acts committed by other persons during a protest cannot justify excessive use of force by agents of the state. This works also It is not enough to disenfranchise peaceful protesters of their right to freedom of assembly,” she said.
“that it up to the authorities allow the actual exercise of These freedoms are protected by protecting peaceful protesters and journalists covering these protests against police brutality and against Violent individuals who act within or on Sidelines of parades” added.
Teens, Arrested Jogger
Macron government last The week uses a controversial executive power To adopt a pension bill without a parliamentary vote, which sparked spontaneous protests in major cities.
In the days that followed, the videos of Police action that appeared on social media It seems show Police methods over Or hit protesters.
Human Rights Watch told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that it was very amazing concerned about “apparently abusive police practices”.
They echoed a similar “arbitrary crowd control and riot control.” tacticsduring the government’s “yellow vest” movement in 2018-2019 during Macron’s previous term term in officeAl said group.
Obviously, the French authorities did not do that drawn Lessons learned from this or a review of police crowd control policies and practices”, Human Rights Watch France director Benedict Janeiro said.
Critics denounced the police crackdown out sweeping “preventive” arrests, saying even blameless bystanders were arrested up in their nets.
in one Example on Thursday night last Two week 15-year old Austrians on The Liberation newspaper reported that a school trip was among those shut down by the police.
teens, who They were trying to find their host families, they spent the night in jail before their embassy intervened.
man out Jogging was captured the same night.
He told France Inter radio that he was booked on Allegations made in random on The charge sheet was not released until the next afternoon.
While the security forces arrested 292 people That night 283 of They were released without charge.
Amnesty International has sounded the alarm over Widely use of Exaggerated force and arbitrary arrests.
Reporters Without Borders said the police assaulted a number of “clearly identifiable” journalists.
“particularly apt to disperse”
Macron on Al-Jumaa denounced the nightly violence and claimed that the security forces actedin in a perfect way.”
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said police responded to “troublemakers, often from afar left”,” who king caused 441 policemen were injured.
AFP saw the suspected anarchists and other demonstrators fire for littering and smashing shop windows and firing stones and explosives at the security forces.
Darmanin said 11 internal investigations into alleged police brutality have been opened in the past week.
“that it possible That, individually, the police, mostly because they are tired, commit behaves inconsistently with He said in defense of police brutality.
in one incident on On Monday, a woman complained that a member of Notorious police motorcycle unit, known as BRAV-M, hit Ha with truncheon while being arrested against a wall in A source affiliated with the case in Paris told AFP.
Earlier this year, the police on January 19 beat a man so hard with His lawyer told AFP that a baton had to amputate his testicles.
Paris police chief Laurent Nunez insisted earlier this week that there were no “unjustified” or “preventive” arrests. But he admitted that the security forces had already arrested him people Whom, what they referred to, the groups that formed”with a view to commit violence.”
Although yelling, he is also Defend the notorious police motorcycle unit, which critics To be resolved, he called it one “particularly adapted to disperse” such groups.
Right-wing groups have long accused the French police of Brutality and racism, he says, appear to be internal investigations result in some penalties.
