Unrest erupted again on Thursday in France marking the third day of clashes over the deadly police shooting of a teenager in non-terror where the incident took place cars were set on fire and protesters set up Road barricades hurling projectiles at lines of police riot police fired back with tear gas
Earlier in the day there had been a largely peaceful March for the victim identified as seventeen-year-old Niel of North African descent he was shot dead during a traffic stop and public anger over the incident led to riots across France this week teenager’s mother chanted Justice for Niel with other supporters in the March
Karima katem a local counselor in Blanc maznell Northeast of Paris says people’s patience is running thin I think we owe this today to Niel there have already been so many like him before and we don’t want any more by killing Niel they killed our child earlier president Emmanuel macron held a
Crisis meeting with senior ministers over the shooting and condemned the unrest interior Minister Gerald darmanen said 40 000 police officers would be deployed across the country on Thursday that’s nearly four times the numbers mobilized the previous day a video shared on social media verified by Reuters shows two police officers
Beside a Mercedes AMG car with one shooting at the teenage driver at close range as he pulled away he died shortly afterwards from his wounds a non-terror prosecutor said the officer involved had been put under formal investigation for voluntary homicide the officer has acknowledged firing a lethal shot the prosecutors added telling
Investigators he wanted to prevent a car chase after the teenager allegedly committed several traffic violations the incident has fed long-standing complaints of police violence and systemic racism inside law enforcement agencies from rights groups and within the low-income racially mixed suburbs across the country authorities denied the accusations
Protesters clashed with riot police on the sidelines of a march held on Thursday (June 29) in tribute to Nahel, a 17-year-old shot dead by police earlier this week in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
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No one should lose their lives for speaking what they believe in. This should be an embarrassment to the police force. RIP young man ??????
Exactly like in Canada (and USA) : shoot a white guy, nobody bats an eye, shoot a POC drug-dealer who's an illegal, and the entire neighborhood mobilizes out of outrage, loots, and speaks of injustice and police brutality. Keep on looking the other way when they're here, make "safe-cities" where they are welcomed with open arms, without checks or verifications. This is what you get.
FTP came up on my feed..coincidence?
Down with ALL governments and their bullies.