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Local residents and police forces have called the continued unrest "disgraceful" while the man allegedly assaulted by police named only as Theo has pleaded for calm.

Yves Lefebvre head of the police union said: "Setting a wheelchair van on fire is a disgrace. This has to stop."

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

What the OP doesn't say (but a linked video report does state clearly) is that this is a reaction to police brutality and a specific allegation of sexual assault by police against a community member. One police officer has been charged with raping a male prisoner, which seems to offer some confirmation about the cause of the violence.

From the vision, it is also very clear that this response by community members is a community wide response involving all sectors of French society ranging from 'traditional' French whites to immigrants and Muslims. Attempts by the fascist French National Front to characterise this as an Islamic uprising might persuade gullible idiots like rm but they seem directly contradicted by the footage of the community's response.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

No, they deemed his truncheon(baton) accidentally slipped into theos anus several times

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-police-anal-rape-suspect-truncheon-paris-officer-accident-sodomised-expandable-baton-theo-a7572581.html

Police in France have claimed that an officer anally raped a 22-year-old black man with a truncheon by mistake.

In an initial investigation, they found “insufficient evidence” to support the man's claim that he was deliberately sodomised.

A lawyer for one of the officer's suggested his expandable baton slipped into the man's anus by accident.

The findings of the internal police inquiry were announced as violent protests continued for a sixth night in Paris' northern suburbs, over the incident involving a man identified only as Théo.

The youth worker suffered such severe injuries to his rectum during an arrest last week in Aulnay-sous-Bois, north of Paris, that he needed major emergency surgery and remains in hospital.

The case drew attention to alleged police brutality in France, where officers are regularly accused of using excessive force in poorer neighbourhoods, particularly against young black men.

President Francois Hollande visited Théo, who had no police record prior to the incident and was stopped last week for an identity check, in hospital on Tuesday, in a bid to calm tensions on housing estates and deflect criticism that the government has not taken allegations of police brutality seriously.

With Mr Hollande beside his hospital bed, Théo made a televised appeal for his neighbourhood to stay calm and “stay united”. He said he did not want a war on the estate and that he trusted the justice system.

But the finding of the inquiry may now spark more protests.

Police reviewed a video which reportedly shows an officer “applying a truncheon blow horizontally across the buttocks”. After this Theo's trousers “slipped down on their own”, a police source told French media.

Investigators said they had taken into account “the questioning of the victim and the (police officers), eyewitness accounts and CCTV recordings” and had concluded that “there are insufficient elements to show that this was a rape”.

However, a magistrate has charged one of the police officers with rape and is still investigating the case. Three other officers have been charged with assault and all four have been suspended.

Théo said in the television interview that he thought he was going to die during the incident. He said a police baton was forced into his anus and that he was then sprayed with teargas to the face and mouth and beaten to the head while officers shouted insults, including “bitch”. He said the pain from being sprayed and beaten to the head seemed “fleeting” because he was in such agony from the baton attack. “I was walking only because they were holding me up,” he said.

He was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery to repair his rectum. Doctors said he would be incapacitated for three months.

Police said things were quieter in the area where the incident occurred after Théo's public appeal for calm, but on Wednesday 28 people were detained in neighbouring Parisian suburbs for “throwing objects, lighting fires and violence”.

Protests spread to northwestern France, with 20 people arrested in Nantes following a demonstration of around 400 people in support of Théo and incidents in the city of Rennes as well.

Sebastian Roché, a sociologist specialising in French policing, told Le Parisien newspaper that in recent years politicians had done little to address the decaying relationship between police and young people or to tackle the tensions and racial discrimination on housing estates. He said: “The crucial question is how to treat citizens in an equal way? No government on the right or left has seized on this question.”

Last year, French police took part in a national protest against what they called“anti-cop hatred”, after clashes with demonstrators at rallies against the government’s proposed new labour laws.

In 2005, weeks of riots erupted on estates across France after two teenagers were electrocuted when they hid in an electricity substation while being chased by police. The death in police custody last summer of a young black man just outside Paris, and the slow reaction of authorities, has sparked accusations of police violence and a state cover-up. An investigation is continuing.

Last autumn, France’s highest court upheld a ruling finding the French state guilty of carrying out unjustified identity checks on men from ethnic minorities.

CBS report.....Riots grip Paris suburbs after teen allegedly sodomized by cop
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/paris-riots-black-teen-allegedly-sodomized-police-officer-baton/

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Thank you for posting that Lucy. The "Independent's" report confirms all the claims I advanced in my previous post, mainly that:
*The cause of the rioting was community revulsion at the sexual assault of a teenager by a policeman/policemen;
* That one police man had been charged with rape; and
* There was no Islamist issue involved here, it was a case of the community-wide protests at police brutality, an old and ongoing problem in France.

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This can't be true. The Lame Stream Media and the socialist left and the Islamists all tell me that there's no such things as "No-Go Zones"

Michael

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr


This can't be true. The Lame Stream Media and the socialist left and the Islamists all tell me that there's no such things as "No-Go Zones"

Michael

How about people who actually live there (like my family) who routinely go on these supposed "no-go" zones telling you so? Would you believe actual feet on the ground?

Pro-tip: they don't exist, I personally have gone in these areas many times over the past few years - as recently as December of last year. Sorry, but the "no-go" zone thing was debunked long ago - to the point where Fox News actually issued multiple retractions.

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ORIGINAL: PeggyO

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr


This can't be true. The Lame Stream Media and the socialist left and the Islamists all tell me that there's no such things as "No-Go Zones"

Michael

How about people who actually live there (like my family) who routinely go on these supposed "no-go" zones telling you so? Would you believe actual feet on the ground?

Pro-tip: they don't exist, I personally have gone in these areas many times over the past few years - as recently as December of last year. Sorry, but the "no-go" zone thing was debunked long ago - to the point where Fox News actually issued multiple retractions.

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/pamela-geller-inside-frances-sharia-no-go-zones

muslims-prayers-France The mainstream media has decided that there are no Sharia no-go zones in France, and that only racist, bigoted Islamophobes think otherwise. The people of France, unfortunately, know better.

“Inside France’s Sharia No-Go Zones,” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart, January 22, 2015:

“There is a tremendous controversy these days about the no-go zones in France. Fox News has apologized for covering them. Fox Report host Julie Banderas said: “To be clear, there is no formal designation of these zones in either country and no credible information to support the assertion there are specific areas in these countries that exclude individuals based solely on their religion.” Yet while it may be true that there aren’t specific areas of France where non-Muslims are prevented from entering, there are many that, if they do enter, they must conform to Islamic norms.

This has been reported for years. The New York Times reported in April 2002, “Arab gangs regularly vandalize synagogues here, the North African suburbs have become no-go zones at night, and the French continue to shrug their shoulders.” And Newsweek said in November 2005: “According to research conducted by the government’s domestic intelligence network, the Renseignements Generaux, French police would not venture without major reinforcements into some 150 ‘no-go zones’ around the country–and that was before the recent wave of riots began on Oct. 27.

Just two weeks ago, the New Republic wrote: “The word banlieue (‘suburb’) now connotes a no-go zone of high-rise slums, drug-fueled crime, failing schools and poor, largely Muslim immigrants and their angry offspring.”