Paris: In the midst of ongoing tensions following riots earlier this month over the police killing of a teenager, a Paris court on Saturday banned a demonstration against police violence in the city.

After a week of riots that resulted in extensive damage to both public and private property, authorities have made an effort to crack down on demonstrations in order to prevent further mayhem.

Any protest "directly linked to the riots" that followed the shooting of Nahel, 17, during a traffic stop, was outlawed on Wednesday, according to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.

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The country's long-standing tensions regarding police brutality and racism were exacerbated when a video of a police officer shooting the teen at point-blank range went viral.

On Saturday, a Paris administrative court upheld the ban following a last-ditch attempt by protest organizers to appeal the decision.

The judges determined in an order seen by AFP that prohibiting the protest was the only choice "given the very recent nature of the serious riots," a lack of police availability, and the possibility of disturbances.

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Lawyer for the protesters, a coalition against police brutality, Lucie Simon, charged that the government was "impeding all channels of democratic expression of perfectly legitimate demands."

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Last Saturday, while demonstrations against police brutality were taking place, about 2,000 people defied a similar ban to attend a memorial rally in central Paris for a young black man who died in police custody in 2016.