French police have claimed that an officer anally raped a 22-year-old black man with a baton by accident. Protests and riots erupted in a Paris suburb following the sexual assault of the man who suffered at the hands of four police officers during a routine ID check. The protests have been ongoing in the Paris suburbs and are now spreading across the country The Independent reports: In an initial investigation, they found “insufficient evidence” to support the man’s claim that he was deliberately sodomised. A lawyer for one of the officer’s suggested his expandable baton slipped into the man’s anus by accident. The findings of the internal police inquiry were announced as violent protests continued for a sixth night in Paris’ northern suburbs, over the incident involving a man identified only as Théo The youth worker suffered such severe injuries to his rectum during an arrest last week in Aulnay-sous-Bois, north of Paris, that he needed major emergency surgery and remains in hospital. The case drew attention to alleged police brutality in France, where officers are regularly accused of using excessive force in poorer neighbourhoods, particularly against young black men. President Francois Hollande visited Théo, who had no police record prior to the incident and was stopped [...]
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