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FRENCH President Francois Hollande called for “justice” yesterday over the alleged rape of a black youth with a police baton, appealing for calm after more than a week of riots.
“Justice must be served,” Hollande said during a visit to the working-class suburb of Aubervilliers, situated in the tough Seine-Saint-Denis region northeast of Paris where Theo, a 22-year-old youth worker, was assaulted while being arrested.
But Hollande also condemned the nightly violence after the February 2 incident in a high-rise housing estate, calling the rioting “unacceptable.”
He said France was determined to “show that we are capable of living together in a peaceful society, but where respect is the rule and where we must be firm towards those who diverge from this principle.”
Theo’s alleged treatment by four police officers during a routine stop-and-search operation has triggered clashes with police and arson attacks in a string of impoverished, ethnically-mixed suburbs around the French capital.
Dozens of people have been arrested, including 25 overnight on Monday.
Theo was hospitalized with severe anal injuries after one of the officers allegedly sodomized him with a truncheon.
The officer in question has been charged with rape and his three colleagues with assault. All four have been suspended.
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