Protests over the alleged sexual assault of a youth worker have lasted for six nights in the Paris suburbs and are spreading across the country
‘Police in France have claimed that an officer anally raped a 22-year-old black man with a truncheon by mistake.
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.’