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Alison Hird

Three French police go on trial for violent arrest of young black man

Theo Luhaka has been left permanently disabled following severe injuries during a police stop and search check in February 2017. AFP - GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT

The trial of three police officers – whose violent arrest of Théo Luhaka in the Paris suburbs in 2017 left him permanently disabled – begins in a criminal court on Tuesday.

In February 2017, Théo Luhaka, then aged 22, suffered severe anal injuries from a police telescopic baton used during a stop and search check in the working class suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois, north of Paris.

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