Lévy, René

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“The study confirmed that police stops and identity checks in Paris are princi- pally based on the appearance of the person stopped, rather than on their behavior or actions. Persons perceived to be ethnic minorities were disproportionately stopped by the police… Blacks were overall six times more likely than Whites to be stopped by police”

"[In Paris,] direct discrimination on the basis of physical appearance is coupled with indirect discrimination based on a set of distinguishing features which… [are] distributed in such a way that … they result in disparities between the different ethnic groups."