SocietyInjuries at French student protests draw scrutiny to police tactics

France’s police watchdog, IGPN, has opened 24 investigations into incidents linked to the ongoing high school protest movement, the interior ministry said. The police response has renewed demands to abolish rubber bullets and launcher-fired riot-control weapons, which rights groups and UN experts have long condemned as dangerous and excessive.

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