Black Lives Matter activists protest across the world including in London, France and Germany

Hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists protest on London’s Oxford Street as other gatherings take place in France and Germany two months after George Floyd’s death

  • Black Lives Matter protests took place in central London on Sunday afternoon
  • Together with a pro-Palestine movement, the activists blocked up Oxford Circus
  • Protests also took place in France to for four-year anniversary of Adama Traore
  • BLM Activists in Berlin also held a ‘Solidarity takes no summer break’ march

Black Lives Matter protests took place across the world on Sunday, including in central London where Oxford Circus was blocked by activists.

The global movement against racial injustice continues nearly nine weeks after the death of Minnesota resident George Floyd who died at the hands of police brutality in the United States.

On a warm afternoon in London, demonstrators held up signs and chanted in the streets, with some wearing face masks to protect themselves in London. 

Black Lives Matter protests took place across the world on Sunday, including in central London (pictured) 

The Black Lives Matter activists in the English capital were joined by a pro-Palestine movement (pictured) opposing Israel's annexation plan in the West Bank

The Black Lives Matter activists in the English capital were joined by a pro-Palestine movement (pictured) opposing Israel’s annexation plan in the West Bank

Protestors wore face masks (pictured)during the march due to the coronavirus pandemic across the world

Protestors wore face masks (pictured)during the march due to the coronavirus pandemic across the world

The Black Lives Matter activists in the English capital were joined by a pro-Palestine movement opposing Israel’s annexation plan in the West Bank.

The two separate movements came together peacefully and ended up blocking Oxford Circus in the heart of London’s shopping bubble. 

Black Lives Matter protests also took place in France as thousands of people gathered in a town outside Paris in honour of 24-year-old Malian-French man Adama Traore, who died due to police brutality four years ago this week. 

Traore died in the town of Val-d’Oise on 19 July 2016 after being restrained and apprehended by police and fainted on the way to a police station where he later died. 

Protests also took place in march for the four-year anniversary of the death of Adama Traore

Protests also took place in march for the four-year anniversary of the death of Adama Traore

Traore died in the town of Val-d'Oise on 19 July 2016 after being restrained and apprehended by police and fainted on the way to a police station where he later died

Traore died in the town of Val-d’Oise on 19 July 2016 after being restrained and apprehended by police and fainted on the way to a police station where he later died

Adama's sister, Assa (pictured middle), gave a rallying speech during the march, saying: 'No man, no person should die like that, at that age'

Adama’s sister, Assa (pictured middle), gave a rallying speech during the march, saying: ‘No man, no person should die like that, at that age’

Thousands of activists marched through the same town on Sunday in a event organised by an Adama support group and environmental group Alternatiba fighting against social inequality.

The march comes as French judges ordered a new medical inquiry to study the cause of Traore’s death, with members of the victim’s family calling for the officers who restrained the 24-year-old charged with voluntary homicide.

Adama’s sister, Assa, gave a rallying speech during the march, saying: ‘No man, no person should die like that, at that age.’

Family members of other victims of alleged police violence spoke at the event, as crowds were heard chanting, ‘I can’t breathe’ – the words Mr Floyd ushered during his police struggle in Minnesota.

In Germany, meanwhile, thousands of protestors took to the streets of Berlin to take part in a demonstration named ‘Solidarity takes no summer break’. 

Activists held up placards in the march to ‘denounce racism and police brutality’ across the world. 

Around 1500 participants marched from the Victory Column in the German capital to the JVA Moabit prison.

In Berlin, housands of protestors took to the streets of Berlin to take part in a demonstration named 'Solidarity takes no summer break'

In Berlin, housands of protestors took to the streets of Berlin to take part in a demonstration named ‘Solidarity takes no summer break’

Around 1500 participants marched from the Victory Column in the German capital to the JVA Moabit prison

Around 1500 participants marched from the Victory Column in the German capital to the JVA Moabit prison

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