The Council of State, France's highest administrative court, recognises the existence of racially discriminatory police stops in France, but says it has no power to deal with the problem. "Although the Council of State recognises the seriousness of the problem [...] it refrains from asking the State to take measures to put an end to it, to remedy it," says Jean-Claude Samouiller, President of Amnesty International France. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES