Riots again in Paris suburbs where cop shot teen dead | Abroad

The police are on the move with 2000 officers in the Parisian suburbs, 800 more than the night before. The agents were bombarded with, among other things, Molotov cocktails, stones and fireworks. Police fired rubber bullets at rioters. Police cars were set on fire. In Fresnes, a Parisian suburb near Orly airport, rioters attacked the entrance to the local prison. Police arrived on the scene and prevented rioters from entering the prison. By 02:00 in the morning, police in the region had made 77 arrests.

It was also restless in other French cities and the police had to act. This was the case in Paris, Nice and Toulouse, among others.

Nahel was behind the wheel of a car on Tuesday morning that was stopped for a traffic check by two motorcycle cops. Naël accelerated and drove off fast. One of the two officers then fired at the car, killing the young driver.

Initially, police claimed that an officer fired when a vehicle drove into two police motorcyclists. That was wrong. A video posted on social media shows one of the two police officers holding the driver at close range while the car was stationary. As the car drove away, the officer fired and hit Nahel in the chest. Earlier it had been heard: “You get a bullet in your head.”

Nahel’s death has provoked many emotions in France. A range of national figures, from head of state Emmanuel Macron to France national football team captain Kylian Mbappé, expressed their disapproval of the incident. Deputies and members of the government observed a minute of silence in the National Assembly on Wednesday afternoon in tribute to the teenager.

Nahel’s mother has called for a silent march through Nanterre on Thursday afternoon. The journey should lead to the prefecture, the office of the administration of the department of which Nanterre is the capital.