French court clears police over Paris deaths that triggered 2005 riots

Two officers faced charges of failing to help a group of youths who ran into an electricity substation A French court has cleared two police officers accused of failing to help a group of youths who ran into an electricity substation where two of them died, sparking three weeks of rioting across the country nearly 10 years ago. The judge threw out the charge of "non-assistance of a person in danger" against the police who were charged with not raising the alarm or warning the emergency services....