<p><br /> A disturbing video showing French police roughly handling immigrants of African descent is causing an uproar in France.<br /> </p><p><br /> The video, shot on July 21st shows police dragging away women of African origin who were demonstrating against their eviction from a block of flats where they were living.<br /> </p><p><br /> A housing campaigner filmed the scenes which show a mother apparently being dragged on the floor with her baby on her back.<br /> </p><p><br /> Other scenes show a pregnant woman lying apparently unconscious on the ground.<br /> </p><p><br /> The website which published the video, Mediapart.fr, had almost 500,000 hits by Sunday.<br /> </p><p><br /> Police authorities issued a statement after the video was released saying police had used normal force in this kind of situation.<br /> </p><p><br /> The families had set up camp in front of the flats from which they were expelled in early July this year.<br /> </p>
