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French police ‘strip and search’ South African opera star for being black

SOUTH African opera star Pretty Yende on Tuesday accused French customs agents of treating her with “outrageous racial discrimination” at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, a claim strongly contested by police and airport sources. “Police brutality is real for someone who looks like me,” the soprano, who is black, wrote on her Instagram account a day after arriving for a…