All photos: AFPHundreds of people took to the streets of a Paris suburb on Monday to denounce police brutality, after a 22-year-old black man was allegedly sodomised with a baton during an arrest last week. The man suffered severe anal injuries which required surgery and was also treated for damage to the head and face in hospital. The severity of his injuries led a doctor to declare him unfit to work for 60 days. "Although thousands of police are doing their work properly... too many arrests end in nightmares for some young people. "(But) one shouldn't take advantage to heap criticism on the police who do admirable work in very difficult conditions," he added.

Source: The Local February 07, 2017 07:29 UTC