French justice could open an investigation into the “voluntary homicide” of the young man shot to death by a police officer in Nanterre on Tuesday, prosecutor sources told the Associated Press (AP) on Thursday.
Nanterre prosecutor Pascal Prache said that, based on an initial investigation, he concluded that the officer “did not meet the legal conditions for the use of the weapon.”
Two magistrates were appointed to carry out the investigation, added Prache, who requested the preventive detention of the officer who allegedly shot the young man.
The decision on the coercive measure must be taken by another magistrate.
Yassine Bouzrou, the attorney for the family of the young shooting victim, told The Associated Press that he wants the police officer to be prosecuted for manslaughter instead of manslaughter.
The death of the 17-year-old during a traffic check on Tuesday, caught on surveillance cameras, has heightened longstanding tensions between youths and police in housing estates and other deprived neighborhoods across France.
The first clashes with police broke out Tuesday night on the outskirts of Nanterre in Paris, where Nahel was killed, and the government deployed 2,000 police officers to maintain order on Wednesday, but the violence resumed after dark.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, today considered unjustifiable “the” scenes of violence “against the “institutions of the Republic”, in reference to the riots last night caused by the reaction to the death of the teenager at the hands of the police.
The Head of State, who was speaking before the start of the inter-ministerial crisis group meeting, hoped that “the next few hours” would be one of “meditation and respect”, while the victim’s family organized a march in memory of the young man. he killed by a policeman.
Meanwhile, the Interior Minister also condemned the events last night.
“Town halls, schools and police stations” were “set on fire or attacked”, wrote Gérald Darmanin, on social networks, stressing that violence against “symbols of the Republic” is intolerable.
“Shame on those who did not appeal for calm,” the minister declared, adding that 150 people were detained overnight.
Source: TSF
