Shocking
video of police brutality against immigrant African women and their
babies emerged on news channels and the internet. The disturbing videos
showed images of French riot police who savagely evicted around 60 women
who had been living in the street after being evicted from their
houses. Riot police were filmed dragging out women, infants and children
on the pavement. Pregnant women were also among the crowd. No legal
action has been taken to investigate the police brutality or solve the
problems of the immigrant community.
[bikyamasr.com] Around 60 African immigrant women, mostly from Ivory Cost were living
in the street after the City Council of Paris forcefully evacuated them
from their house on the 8th of July. The city council did not make any
arrangements for the immigrant families and left the pregnant women,
infants and children homeless.
More shockingly, on the 21st of July, 2010 French riot officers brutally evacuated them from the street.
They savagely dragged out mothers whose infants were strapped on
their backs, pregnant women and little children. The footage showed
screaming and crying babies suffering under racist brutality and
speculation of the potentially serious injuries and fatalities.
There has been no investigation launched into the incident. IHRC
urges campaigners to write to the French authorities and the European
Commission against Racism and Intolerance to press for an independent
investigation into the actions of riot police on the 21st of July.
What a fuss about nothing. The video does NOT show any violence. No batons but carefully carrying away of the protestors. The protestors themselves conveniently decided to put women and children in the frontline while the men hid behind them. A staged attempt to accuse the police of brutality.