FILE PHOTO: Law student Mathilla Diagana, 19, poses in a park during an interview with Reuters, in Bonsecours near Rouen, France June 12, 2020. Picture taken June 12, 2020. REUTERS/Caroline Pailliez
ROUEN, France (Reuters) - A tear rolled down Mathilla Diagana's cheek as she sat in her student dormitory room in the northern French city of Rouen and watched an online video of a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd.
"I feel anger, sadness," said the 19-year-old, one of tens of thousands who have joined anti-racism protests in France and beyond and turned the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement into a global rallying cry.
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