French court rules discrimination behind students’ ID checks Overturning a lower court decision, a Paris appeals court ruled on Tuesday that discrimination was behind humiliating police identity checks on three high school students of color as they left a train on their return from a school trip. The court convicted the French state of a “grave fault” and ordered it to pay 1,500 euros (more than $1,800) to the young men as a form of reparation for the police actions in 2017. The three, all at the time in their final year of high school in Paris suburb Epinay-sur-Seine, were stopped at the Gare du Nord after their ... Continue reading... https://www.klfy.com/international/french-court-rules-discrimination-behind-students-id-checks/ Find in Internet Archives [google]French court rules discrimination behind students’ ID checks[/google]
