A police officer suspected of shooting dead a 17-year-old motorist in Nanterre, in the Paris region, on Tuesday because he refused to obey the summons has been arrested after the death of the young man who was expressing emotions and emotions in this municipal theater Anger caused some tension in the evening.
The incident happened around 8:30 a.m. near the Nanterre-Préfecture RER train station in a Paris suburb.
Initially, police sources claimed a vehicle had hit the police.
But video circulating on Twitter, authenticated by AFP, showed one of the two police officers involved holding the driver at gunpoint and then shooting at point-blank range as he pulled away.
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The car finished its race a few tens of meters away, embedded in a post.
The victim, Naël M., 17, died shortly after the strike despite the Samu’s intervention.
At the beginning of the evening, seven people were arrested in Nanterre due to tensions with the police, as we learned from the police headquarters.
According to the Interior Ministry, two units of mobile forces, including members of the CRS 8 – specialized in combating urban violence – are deployed for the night in the capital Hauts-de-Seine.
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Waste fires quickly brought under control were reported in the afternoon.
Shortly before 9 p.m., around thirty people gathered peacefully in front of a police station and chanted “The police mutilate, the police kill”.
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An investigation has been launched into non-compliance and attempted willful killing of an incumbent.
Another investigation into premeditated homicide by a public official was transferred to the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police).
“One of the police officers is currently in custody for premeditated homicide. Blood alcohol and narcotics tests were conducted and came back negative,” prosecutors said in a statement.
“In the coming days we will be filing a premeditated homicide complaint against the police officer who fired the shots (…). The lawsuit is also directed against his colleague for complicity in voluntary homicide,” the family lawyer, Me Yassine Bouzrou, announced in a press release.
“A second falsification of public writings complaint is being filed against police who allege that the young man attempted to commit murder on her person by attempting to hit her, which is officially denied by viewing the video,” he also wrote.
At that time, there were two other people in the vehicle: a first passenger fled, while the second, also a minor, was arrested and taken into custody. The latter was lifted at the beginning of the afternoon, the public prosecutor said.
According to initial police findings, the driver of the rented Mercedes AMG had committed several traffic violations. At the sight of police motorcyclists, he first stopped before accelerating.
An officer then shot him in the chest.
“An autopsy and further investigations, especially from a toxicological point of view, have been ordered and must be carried out,” the public prosecutor said on Wednesday.
About forty people gathered briefly in tears near the scene of the tragedy in the early afternoon to express their “anger”.
“It’s so sad, he was so young. I saw him born,” sighed Samia Bough, 62, a former neighbor of the teen, who came to lay a bouquet of yellow roses.
The victim was already known to the courts, particularly because she refused to comply.
Nanterre Mayor (DVG) Patrick Jarry said he was “shocked” by video of the drama, which drew much comment on the left.
“The death penalty no longer exists in France. “No police officer has the right to kill except in self-defense,” tweeted Jean-Luc Mélenchon, chairman of La France insoumise, saying the police force should be “completely overhauled.”
Gérald Darmanin spoke in the National Assembly of “extremely shocking pictures” and called for “respect for the bereavement of families and the presumption of innocence of the police”.
The 38-year-old police officer who fired the shot was “very shocked” by the tragedy, police chief Laurent Nuñez told BFMTV.
In 2022, 13 deaths from roadside refusals were registered, a record. Five police officers have been charged in these cases, the others have been released without prosecution at this time.