Overview
- Several thousand people rallied at the northeast Paris shelter where Diarra lived before marching to the local police station on January 25.
- Paris police have opened an internal investigation into the arrest and the circumstances of Diarra’s death.
- Video filmed by neighbors and shared on social media shows an officer punching a man on the ground as another officer stands nearby.
- Diarra’s family has filed a legal complaint alleging intentional violence that led to death, according to their lawyer.
- Prosecutors report he was detained after allegedly refusing a search over suspected cannabis and forged documents, then passed out at the station and was pronounced dead.