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Rights groups complain to UN over French police racial profiling

A police officer frisks a man during an ID check in the Gare du Nord station in Paris, France . © AFP / Fred Dufour

Rights watchdogs including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International on Thursday said they were seeking UN help to end racial profiling by the French police.

Evidence and testimonies from victims and police show that in France "racial profiling particularly targets black and Arab young men and boys or those perceived as such, including children as young as 10," Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.

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