The narrative battle over Franceโs unrest
Student protests, police violence and French media obsessed with 'barbarians'.
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Student protests, police violence and French media obsessed with 'barbarians'.
A video showing French riot police violently beating a 26-year-old street medic in Paris has gone viral, with social media users falsely claiming he died from his injuries. But the street medic is alive, and spoke to FRANCE 24. The rumour was fuelled by confusion with a separate incident that same day: a man died of cardiac arrest in the same area, causing online users to conflate the two events. Vedika Bahl explains in Truth or Fake.
The protester was hit, kicked, and slapped by police allegedly because he was participating in a video recording documenting police violence towards detainees; his right ear drum was perforated in the process
As protests nationwide protests rage, activists warn proposed law could lead to more impunity.