Several hundred people demonstrated Sunday in Paris in support of three teenagers injured in April in a collision with a police car in the northeast of the capital, said an AFP journalist.

The 17-year-old driver of the two-wheeler remains hospitalized, according to her family. The other two injured youths, aged 13 and 14, were discharged from hospital. "It's not normal that our children are afraid of the police, the police are there to protect us," the driver's sister said during the march, without giving her name.

"We do not forget, we do not forgive"

"Justice for our children", "we do not forget, we do not forgive", "police everywhere, justice nowhere", chanted the demonstrators, first and foremost members of the family of the three minors. Several deputies, including the Insoumise Eric Coquerel, Thomas Portes and Sophia Chikirou and the ecologist Eva Sas, as well as the activist against police violence Assa Traoré, were present.

On April 13 shortly before midnight, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, the three teenagers, on a scooter, had tried to escape a control and fell, a few streets away, hitting a police car. Police officials had initially claimed that the young driver had lost control of the two-wheeler that had fallen, without mentioning a collision with the police vehicle. Then, contradicted by testimony, the police officers in question had finally recognized a contact.

A police officer indicted

Three officers were suspended after the incident and one of them was indicted on 21 April for violence with a weapon and forgery in public documents. This police officer was placed "under judicial control with prohibitions to exercise the activity of police officer, as well as to enter into contact with victims and witnesses".

The march marked a pause where the shock had taken place, then near the police station of the 2007th arrondissement and in front of the place where Lamine Dieng, a Franco-Senegalese, had been arrested in <> before dying in a police bus. The demonstrators chanted slogans hostile to the police and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.

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