Virus containment measures have made tensions even worse between police and marginalized residents of France’s low-income neighborhoods.
The Associated Pressconfined to fight the virus, a video circulated online in April showing a young man lying on the bloody ground next to two police officers — and quickly set off protests in struggling neighborhoods around the Paris region.
In a pivotal moment for modern France, rioting engulfed the country for three weeks in 2005 after two boys who were running from police, Zyed and Bouna, were electrocuted while hiding in an electric generator in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. A state of emergency was declared and almost 3,000 people were arrested.
Under France’s strictest virus lockdown measures, from March 17-May 11, the government restricted people’s movements to a kilometer around their homes and required that anyone leaving their homes carry a signed paper stating why. Punishments included fines starting at 135 euros , or even prison. But police union leader Yves Lefebvre lamented that the lockdown measures “again made the police a repressive tool.”
The Villeneuve incident is being investigated by prosecutors and by the French state police watchdog agency, which said it received 166 citizen reports of problematic police behavior and seven formal complaints of police abuse during the 54 days of France's coronavirus lockdown. Amal Bentounsi, whose brother Amine was shot in the back and killed by the police in 2012, founded a group to support families of victims and provide legal help to bring abusive police to court. The officer who killed her brother was sentenced to a five-year suspended prison sentence — a rare legal victory for families like hers.
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