Black Lives Matter’ Protests Spread in Corona-hit EU

Protests against racism and police brutality have spread throughout Europe following the US police brutal killing of 46-year-old African American George Floyd.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic and related restrictions, a large number of people at the weekend took the streets of EU countries like the UK, Hungary, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Italy to support the Black Lives Matter movement, said EUobserver on Tuesday.
Most demonstrators were wearing face masks – although the density of the crowd in many big cities made social distancing almost impossible.
In the meantime French police have been banned from using chokeholds to detain suspects in light of US events, its interior minister, Christophe Castaner, said Monday. “It will no longer be taught in police and gendarmerie schools. It is a method that has its dangers,” he said.
Minister Castaner also pledged “zero tolerance” for racism in the police. The move came amid French solidarity demonstrations with the Black Lives Matter movement in America. /argumentum.al