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> Annie Ernaux, the 2022 Nobel literature laureate, has backed calls for a thorough investigation after four female students said they were sexually assaulted by police in the western city of Nantes following a protest against President Emmanuel Macron's deeply contentious pension reform.

> The incident took place on March 14 as a group of several dozen students returned from a union protest on the city's ring road. The students said they were surrounded and violently searched by police officers tailing them.

> Following the women's complaint, prosecutors ordered the police inspectorate, the IGPN, to investigate the accusations - a move deplored by Ernaux and her fellow signatories, who said the case should be handed over to a body independent of the police.

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