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Class action opened over racial profiling by French police

by Elaine Ganley
| January 27, 2021 5:12 AM

PARIS (AP) — In a first for France, six nongovernmental organizations launched a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the French government for alleged systemic discrimination by police officers carrying out identity checks.

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