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RAPPORT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OVER POLITIEOPTREDEN
FRANSE POLITIE [2009]
” Amnesty International has longstanding and continuing concerns regarding allegations of human rights violations by law enforcement officials2 in France, and the failure to bring those responsible for such acts to justice through independent, impartial and effective investigations. In 2005 the organisation published the report France: The search for justice (AI index: EUR21/001/2005), which examined allegations of serious human rights violations by law enforcement officials going back to 1991. Such violations included unlawful killings, excessive use of force, torture, and other ill-treatment. Racist abuse was reported in many cases, and racist motivation appeared to be a factor in many more.” [BLZ 5, INTRODUCTION]
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” Amnesty International wishes to draw attention once again to its concern that although the victims of ill-treatment and other human rights violations include both men and women and a variety of age groups, the vast majority of complaints that have come to the organization’s attention concern French citizens from an ethnic minority or foreign nationals. In several of the cases highlighted in this report, racist abuse was an explicit element” [BLZ 38]
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
POLICE OFFICERS ABOVE THE LAW IN FRANCE
2009
RAPPORT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL [2005]
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
FRANCE: THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE: THE EFFECTIVE IMPUN
OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN CASES OF SHOOTINGS,
DEATHS IN CUSTODY OR TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT
5 APRIL 2005
April 5, 2005Index Number: EUR 21/001/2005
This document refers to about 30 cases of young people who were subjected, or allegedly subjected, to serious human rights violations by police officers between 1991 and 2005. Such violations included unlawful killings, excessive use of force, torture or ill-treatment and racist abuse. Many of their complaints have only relatively recently been concluded or are still going through the judicial process. Eighteen cases are described in detail in this report. All involve persons of foreign origin.
ZIE RAPPORT UIT 2005
” This report has attempted to show some of the different factors which combine to create an atmosphere of effective impunity in cases of police brutality in France. That France is by no means unique in this regard does not detract from the urgent need to review the ways in which complaints about police abuse are handled and to change the generally indulgent attitude to police abuse by courts and prosecutors, at a time when the number of complaints of excessive and unnecessary use of force and ill-treatment is clearly on the rise. Amnesty International’s concern is compounded by the fact that the vast majority of such cases involve foreign nationals or French nationals of foreign origin – a fact which points to a continuing failure in training and education in racial discrimination, and in the concept that human rights, including France’s traditional “republican values”, mean the application of such rights and values equally to all, regardless of racial or national origin. The report has documented a pattern whereby elements of impunity may mark a case from the outset of detention, and may continue to manifest themselves in various ways throughout the process. Some of the cases described show how a provocative identity check, reflecting unprofessional conduct on the part of the police, can degenerate into violence and result in charges of ill-treatment on the one side, countered by charges of insulting or resisting a public official (outrage et rébellion) on the other.” [BLZ 74, ONDER ”CONCLUSIONS”
FRANCE
THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE
The effective impunity of law enforcement officers in cases of
shootings, deaths in custody or torture and
ill-treatment
APRIL 2005
file:///C:/Users/Essed/Downloads/eur210012005en.pdf
[16]
”” Amnesty International wishes to draw attention once again to its concern that although the victims of ill-treatment and other human rights violations include both men and women and a variety of age groups, the vast majority of complaints that have come to the organization’s attention concern French citizens from an ethnic minority or foreign nationals. In several of the cases highlighted in this report, racist abuse was an explicit element”
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
POLICE OFFICERS ABOVE THE LAW IN FRANCE
2009
[17]
In 2005 the organisation published the report France: The search for justice (AI index: EUR21/001/2005), which examined allegations of serious human rights violations by law enforcement officials going back to 1991. Such violations included unlawful killings, excessive use of force, torture, and other ill-treatment. Racist abuse was reported in many cases, and racist motivation appeared to be a factor in many more.”
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
POLICE OFFICERS ABOVE THE LAW IN FRANCE
2009
HET RAPPORT WAARNAAR IN DE BOVENSTAANDE TEKST WOLRDT
VERWEZEN IS ONDERSTAAND AMNESTY RAPPORT UIT 2005
RAPPORT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL [2005]
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
FRANCE: THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE: THE EFFECTIVE IMPUN
OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN CASES OF SHOOTINGS,
DEATHS IN CUSTODY OR TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT
5 APRIL 2005
April 5, 2005Index Number: EUR 21/001/2005
This document refers to about 30 cases of young people who were subjected, or allegedly subjected, to serious human rights violations by police officers between 1991 and 2005. Such violations included unlawful killings, excessive use of force, torture or ill-treatment and racist abuse. Many of their complaints have only relatively recently been concluded or are still going through the judicial process. Eighteen cases are described in detail in this report. All involve persons of foreign origin.
ZIE RAPPORT UIT 2005
” This report has attempted to show some of the different factors which combine to create an atmosphere of effective impunity in cases of police brutality in France. That France is by no means unique in this regard does not detract from the urgent need to review the ways in which complaints about police abuse are handled and to change the generally indulgent attitude to police abuse by courts and prosecutors, at a time when the number of complaints of excessive and unnecessary use of force and ill-treatment is clearly on the rise. Amnesty International’s concern is compounded by the fact that the vast majority of such cases involve foreign nationals or French nationals of foreign origin – a fact which points to a continuing failure in training and education in racial discrimination, and in the concept that human rights, including France’s traditional “republican values”, mean the application of such rights and values equally to all, regardless of racial or national origin. The report has documented a pattern whereby elements of impunity may mark a case from the outset of detention, and may continue to manifest themselves in various ways throughout the process. Some of the cases described show how a provocative identity check, reflecting unprofessional conduct on the part of the police, can degenerate into violence and result in charges of ill-treatment on the one side, countered by charges of insulting or resisting a public official (outrage et rébellion) on the other.” [BLZ 74, ONDER ”CONCLUSIONS”
FRANCE
THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE
The effective impunity of law enforcement officers in cases of
shootings, deaths in custody or torture and
ill-treatment
APRIL 2005
file:///C:/Users/Essed/Downloads/eur210012005en.pdf