Anger as Paris bans protest against police violence

APariscourt on Saturday banned aprotestagainstpoliceviolencein the capital as tensions persist following riots earlier this month over thepolicekilling of a teenager.

Authorities have attempted to clamp down on demonstrations to avoid further chaos after the week of riots saw massive destruction to public and private property.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin had announced the ban on Wednesday of anyprotest"directly linked to the riots" that followed the shooting of 17-year-old Nahel during a traffic stop.

A video of apoliceofficer shooting the teen at point-blank range went viral, fuelling old tensions overpolicebrutality and racism in the country.

An administrative court inParisupheld the ban on Saturday, after a last-ditch effort byprotestorganisers to appeal the decision.

"Given the very recent nature of the serious riots", a lack ofpoliceavailability, and the risk of disturbances, the judges ruled in an order seen by AFP that banning theprotestwas the only option.

Lucie Simon, a lawyer for theprotestorganisers -- made up of a groupingagainstpoliceviolenceand other associations -- accused authorities of "impeding all channels of democratic expression of perfectly legitimate demands."

Last Saturday some 2,000 people defied a similar ban to join a memorial rally in centralParisSaturday for a young black man who died inpolicecustody in 2016, while protestsagainstpolicebrutality took place around France.

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