Severe injuries at French student protests draw scrutiny to police tactics

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Twenty-four investigations have been opened into incidents involving police during France’s ongoing high-school protest movement. Scrutiny has intensified over the use of rubber bullets and other launcher-fired riot-control weapons, which rights groups and UN experts have criticized as dangerous.

Twenty-four investigations have been opened by French police watchdog IGPN into incidents linked to the ongoing high school protest movement, the interior ministry said. The police response has reignited calls to scrap rubber bullets and launcher-fired riot-control weapons, long denounced by rights groups and UN experts as dangerous and excessive.