Mohamed B., an Uber delivery driver, was killed overnight from Saturday to Sunday during the riots in downtown Marseille. His family is calling for the opening of an investigation to shed light on his death and verify whether he was not the victim of a probable rubber bullet shot to the chest.
The fundraising appeals launched by right-wing populists and colleagues to support [the police officer who killed Nahel Merzouk , a 17-year-old in Nanterre a week ago, have so far raised more than 1,470,000 euros, more than triple the amount promised to the victim’s family (379,000 euros).
Latifa Ibn Ziaten, mother of Imad, a French soldier killed by Mohammed Merah in 2012, has made an appeal to parents to stop the wave of violence and vandalism that followed the death of Nahel, the young man killed on Tuesday by a police officer in Nanterre .
France has responded to the statement by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the "deep-rooted problems of racism and discrimination within the law enforcement ".
On August 30, 2022, Zineb Kerrad received an unexpected visit that would turn her life upside down. Five police officers informed her that her son, Amine Leknoun, aged 23, had been fatally shot by a member of the anti-crime brigade (BAC) of Tourcoing.
Since the improvement of the epidemiological situation in Morocco has led to the easing of restrictive measures, life has resumed in the courts with a considerable increase in the number of complaints, trials and criminal cases.
As announced during the sit-in organized on Thursday, the strike of nurses and health technicians in Morocco took place on Friday, August 13 in several health centers.
About 200 people gathered on Sunday from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm at the Mont des Arts in Brussels to denounce police violence against young people. The initiative comes from the "madrés de Saint-Gilles" collective, which used the opportunity of Mother’s Day to call on the police to put an end to the violence they inflict on young people.
During a police intervention in Asnières, on the border with Colombes, a young man received several baton blows to the head. He lost consciousness and was hospitalized.
Akram Kadri, a 29-year-old Algerian, died on Sunday at the hospital, shortly after his arrest. Would he have been the victim of police violence or a heart attack due to the consumption of illicit substances whose traces were found in his blood? This is the crucial question that the Antwerp justice will try to find an answer to.
A year after the death of Ilyas Tahiri, asphyxiated under the knee of a police officer, many people, members of civil society, trade unions and relatives of the young Moroccan, organized a sit-in in front of the courthouse in the city of Almeria. They call on the Spanish justice system to open an investigation into this case.
A police officer from Schaerbeek, of Moroccan origin, was sentenced to 50 months in suspended prison for divulging professional secrets. He is also being prosecuted by the North Brussels police zone for concealment of facts.