On Thursday evening, 6,200 people took part in a march in memory of the youth who was killed by the police, writes France 24. The police have fired tear gas at protesters who have thrown stones and other things at the police, the news agencies write. Nahel’s mother leads the memorial march in Paris on Thursday afternoon. Photo: Michel Euler / AP The policeman who fired the shot that killed the 17-year-old in a traffic control on Tuesday has been arrested and charged with murder, writes the French news agency AFP on Thursday evening. Suburbs and cities throughout France are now characterized by some of the most violent riots since 2005. Just on the night of Thursday, 150 people were arrested. Curfew Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin says 40,000 police officers will be mobilized throughout France, 5,000 of them in Paris. 40,000 police officers have been put on standby in French cities ahead of another night of expected unrest. Photo: ZAKARIA ABDELKAFI / AFP After two nights of riots, many French fear another night of unrest. Reuters reports that the town of Clamart, a little south of Paris, is introducing a curfew. Residents are asked to stay at home from 9pm tonight until 6am on Friday morning. The curfew applies until 3 July. The background is riots that have spread to several places in France after the 17-year-old was shot by the police in the district of Nanterre in Paris on Tuesday. AFP writes on Thursday evening that an internal police memo shows that the police are prepared for more unrest on the night of Friday. Shooting at police checkpoint The murder that has shaken France happened on Tuesday in what looked like a traffic control. A yellow car is stationary and two policemen lean in through the open window. One officer aims a gun at Nahel M.. Screenshot from the video shared on social media by police control where Nahel Merzouk is killed in Nanterre outside Paris. Photo: Via Reuters Then the car drives on, and suddenly there is a bang. A video shot from a different angle shows Nahel’s yellow car moments later. It is in shambles and has crashed into a lamp post. The boy, identified by French media only as Nahel M., was only 17 years old. The shot hit him squarely in the chest, fired mere centimeters away. The videos of the murder in the Paris suburb of Nanterre have spread on social media like wildfire. The mother of the 17-year-old who was killed by the police in Paris on Tuesday. participates in a support march for her son. “Mum, I love you” – He was my life, my best friend, my son, says Nahel’s mother and asks for a “rebellion”. The mother, Mounia, lived alone with her son. She expresses her despair in a video on TikTok. – This morning he gave me a big kiss and said: “Mom, I love you”. I replied “I love you, take care of yourself”. What will I know an hour later? That someone has shot my son. What should I do? He was my life, my best friend, my son. He was everything to me. We were so close that it was not possible, she says upset. Nahel’s mother calls for rebellion after her son’s death. Photo: Screenshot Tiktok Grandma Nadia tells BFM that Nahel was a “kind and good boy”. Earlier on Thursday, the family asked for a memorial in front of the police office in Nanterre. At the same time, the mother calls for a “rebellion”. – I ask you all to come. We are starting a rebellion for my son, says Mounia Merzouk. Disagreement about the roll sheet Nahel went on the electrician course at upper secondary school, but was rarely at school, according to information from the news channel BFM TV. Nahel spent most of his time at his job as a pizza delivery boy. – He wanted to belong, both professionally and socially. He didn’t live by dealing drugs or petty crime, the manager of the rugby club where Nahel spent his free time tells the newspaper Le Parisien. The family’s lawyers have repeated several times that Nahel’s record was clean. Lawyer Yassine Bounou points out that Nahel had a blank record. Photo: GUILLAUME SALIGOT / Reuters – The boy was 17 years old. He was working, he was a delivery boy, and today he was shot. That is what we know for sure, said public prosecutor Yassine Bouzrou on BFMTV on Tuesday. The French newspaper Le Figaro refers to another photo of the 17-year-old. According to the newspaper, he was not unknown to the police. Despite his young age, the 17-year-old had been arrested twelve times. Nahel M’s car is crashed into a lamp post in Nanterre. Photo: via Reuters The 17-year-old is said to have been involved in theft and drug cases according to Le Figaro’s sources. He was summoned to appear in the children’s court next September. Accusations of racism Like many in the French population, Nahel had a North African family background. Now there are accusations that the police in many French cities are acting racist towards the multicultural population. It is only two weeks since two policemen were sentenced to unconditional prison terms for falsifying evidence, theft, and violence against two innocent men of Arab and African origin. – Similarities with Black Lives Matter Associate professor and France expert Marte Mangset at Oslo Met says police violence is a general problem in France. France expert Marte Mangset. Photo: HiOA – In recent years, there has been a change in the law that makes it possible for the police to use firearms during traffic controls, among other things to prevent terrorist attacks as a result of the attack in Nice in 2016. – Since then, hundreds of firearms have been used times, and in 2022 there were 13 murders in similar situations, emphasizes Mangset. While the right calls for a state of emergency to combat the unrest in the street, President Emmanuel Macron says the shooting of the boy is “unforgivable” and has called for an emergency meeting. Marte Mangset says it is possible that the situation in France will escalate. – It is something else when you have a video like this that is shared on social media. Then you get a dynamic similar to the Black Lives Matter dynamic in the United States.
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