Paris prosecutors are calling for the arrest of the police officer who killed a teenager at a checkpoint

The death sparked protests in several cities in France; 150 people were arrested this morning (29)

The public prosecutor’s office in Paris, France, requested this Thursday (29) the preventive arrest of the police officer who shot a teenager Wednesday night who broke through a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city (27) .

The young man, 17 years old and of North African origin, died shortly after. The death sparked a two-night wave of protests in the streets around the French capital. In the early hours of today (29), 150 people were arrested for rioting, the Interior Ministry informed.

The Attorney General of Paris has formally charged the police officer, who must answer for manslaughter. The officer shot the driver of a vehicle after the teenager accelerated and tried to flee when he was accosted by police in Nanterre, a predominantly working-class town 15 kilometers from Paris.

French President Emmanuel Macron called a meeting of ministers on Thursday (29), after riots spread across the country for a second night over the killing of a teenager of African descent by police during a traffic blockade . Even after the arrests, the protests extended this Thursday to the suburbs of large French cities.

The officer is being investigated for murder for shooting the young man. Prosecutors say he failed to stop the car when asked during the approach.

The interior ministry said on Wednesday that 2,000 police were deployed in the Paris region. Just before midnight, on Avenida Pablo Picasso in Nanterre, overturned vehicles burned as fireworks exploded over the police lines.

Police also clashed with protesters in the northern city of Lille and Toulouse in the southwest. There have been riots in Amiens, Dijon and several districts of the greater Paris region, according to the authorities of these cities.

Human rights groups denounce systemic racism by police agencies in France. The use of lethal force by the police against the teenager, who is of North African descent, is in line with an already entrenched perception among some of the population that police brutality is greater in ethnically diverse suburbs than some of the larger French cities.

Hier, des émeutiers ont crié: « mort aux Juifs ». He also makes use of anti-Semitic sales in the chaos environment.#emeute #Nanterre pic.twitter.com/Zink2FlAXB

— Tanguy David (@tanguy_france) June 29, 2023

Source: Terra

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