Paris Protests after Teen Died | News18

Jun 30, 2023 | France saw unrest spread to major cities in a third night of riots on Thursday as President Emmanuel Macron fought to contain a mounting crisis triggered by the deadly police shooting of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent during a traffic stop

France Police Officer Charged after Nahel Shooting - BBC News

Jun 29, 2023 | The police officer accused of shooting dead 17-year-old Nahel M in Paris has been charged with voluntary homicide and placed under arrest. It comes after the local prosecutor of Nanterre, where the teen lived and died, said earlier that the officer involved had been put under formal investigation for voluntary homicide. The killing has sparked riots in cities across France as well as in Nanterre. Meanwhile, following the violent protests, a curfew has been announced in some areas of Paris.

New Wave of Overnight Rage Rocks France; Officer in Police Shooting Will Be Investigated

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The authorities said that 150 people had been arrested after protesters burned cars and buildings for the second night in a row in response to the killing of a 17-year-old driver by a police officer.

PARIS — French prosecutors on Thursday urged that a police officer be placed under investigation for voluntary homicide after the deadly shooting of a 17-year-old driver set off violent riots in more than a dozen cities overnight, with protesters burning cars, lighting buildings on fire and setting off fireworks for the second day in a row.

President Emmanuel Macron convened a crisis meeting after the unrest. In comments broadcast by French television at the start of the meeting on Thursday, he called the violent protests “absolutely unjustifiable” and appealed for calm after the death of the teenager, who has been identified only as Nahel M.

Gérald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, said that 150 people had been arrested overnight after the wave of unrest, and that town halls, schools and police stations had been set on fire or attacked. He called it “a night of intolerable violence against symbols of the Republic.”

Police stations were vandalized or targeted with fireworks in cities including Trappes, near Paris, and Rouen, in the north. In Clamart, a Paris suburb, a tramway was briefly set ablaze. » | Aurelien Breeden, Reporting from Paris | Thursday, June 29, 2023


Demonstrators clashed with riot police officers in the Paris suburb of Nanterre after the police fatally shot a 17-year-old driver during a traffic stop. | Zakaria Abdelkafi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images