European court condemns France over racial profiling by police
European Court of Human Rights condemned France for racially profiling Karim Touil, who was stopped by police three times in the span of ten days with no “objective and reasonable justification” back in 2011.
AA top European court on Thursday condemned France for failing to protect the rights of a Frenchman who had accused his country's police of racial profiling, reports FRANCE 24.
The European Court of Human Rights was unable to determine discrimination in the case of five other French plaintiffs.
But it found that the government had provided no "objective and reasonable justification" for police stopping Karim Touil three times in 10 days in the eastern city of Besançon in 2011.
The court said it was "very aware of the difficulties for police officers to decide, very quickly and without necessarily having clear internal instructions, whether they are facing a threat to public order or security".
But in the case of Touil, it presumed "discriminatory treatment" that the French government was not able to refute.
