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#AceBreakingNews - UPDATE - France entered its third night of riots after police shot dead a 17-year-old in his car. What is happening and why is it escalating?
Police forces clash with youths in Nanterre after the death of 17-year-old Nahel.(AP: Christophe Ena)none
What happened?
On Tuesday (local time) 17-year-old Nahel was shot dead by a police officer during a traffic stop.
The teen failed to comply with an order to stop his car, to which the officer fired his gun.
A video shared on social media shows two police officers beside the car, a Mercedes AMG, with one shooting as the driver pulled away.Loading...
The officer who fired a single shot said he feared he and his colleague or someone else could be hit by the car, according to Pascal Prache, the Nanterre prosecutor.
What followed was thousands of people taking to the streets on Thursday afternoon in a March to remember the teen, with protesters being led by his mother.Mounia, whose 17-year-old son was killed by a French police officer, led a rally of thousands of people. (Reuters: Sarah Meyssonnier)none
A police source who asked not to be named stated there were some 6,200 people at the march.
Tensions started to rise in the north-western Paris suburb of Nanterre following the march, with smoke billowing from cars and garbage bins set ablaze despite government appeals for calm and vows that order would be restored.
Tens of thousands of police officers were deployed to quell the protests, which have gripped the country three nights in a row.The mother of Nahel, centre on truck, gestures during the march in Nanterre.(AP: Michel Euler)none
Where have the protests been taking place?
The march for Nahel and the protests that followed started in Nanterre, where armoured police vehicles rammed through the charred remains of cars that had been flipped and set ablaze, and have spread throughout the country.In Nanterre armoured police vehicles rammed through the charred remains of cars that had been flipped and set ablaze.(AP: Michel Euler)none
In the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, police sought to disperse violent groups in the city centre, regional authorities said.
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In the usually tranquil Pyrenees town of Pau in south-western France, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a new police office, national police said.
Vehicles were set on fire in Toulouse and a tramway train was torched in a suburb of Lyon, police said.
The town of Clamart, home to 54,000 people in the French capital's south-west suburbs, said it was taking the extraordinary step of imposing an overnight curfew through Monday, citing "the risk of new public order disturbances."Police patrol in a street after scuffles in central Brussels in Belgium.(AP: Sylvain Plazy)none
The mayor of Neuilly-sur-Marne announced a similar curfew in that town in the eastern suburbs.
Fire damaged the town hall in the Paris suburb of L'Ile-Saint-Denis, not far from the country's national stadium and the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
A total of 667 people were arrested overnight, said Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.
The unrest extended even to Brussels, the EU administrative home and Belgian capital city, where about a dozen people were detained during scuffles related to the shooting in France.
Police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere said that several fires were brought under control and that at least one car was burned.Loading...
Why is it escalating?
The incident has fed longstanding complaints of police violence and systemic racism inside law enforcement agencies from rights groups and within the low-income, racially mixed suburbs that ring major cities in France.
At a march in Nanterre in memory of Nahel, participants railed against what they perceived as a culture of police impunity and a failure to reform law enforcement in a country that has experienced waves of rioting and protests over police conduct.
"We demand that the judiciary does its job, otherwise we'll do it our way," a neighbour of Nahel's family told Reuters at the march.
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Thousands thronged the streets. Riding atop a flatbed lorry, the teenager's mother waved to the crowd wearing a white T-shirt reading "Justice for Nahel" with the date of his death below.
Tuesday's killing was the third fatal shooting during traffic stops in France so far in 2023, down from a record 13 last year, a spokesperson for the national police said.The banner reads "Allah, mercy for Nahel".(AP: Michel Euler )none
There were three such killings in 2021 and two in 2020, according to a Reuters tally, which shows the majority of victims since 2017 were Black or of Arab origin.
Karima Khartim, a local councillor in Blanc Mesnil north east of Paris said people's patience was running thin.
"We've experienced this injustice many times before," he said.
The scenes in France's suburbs echoed 2005, when the deaths of 15-year-old Bouna Traoré and 17-year-old Zyed Benna led to three weeks of riots, exposing anger and resentment in neglected, crime-ridden suburban housing projects.
The two boys were electrocuted after hiding from police in a power substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.
What happens next?
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The local prosecutor said the officer involved had been put under formal investigation for voluntary homicide.
Under France's legal system, being placed under formal investigation is akin to being charged in Anglo-Saxon jurisdictions.
"The public prosecutor considers that the legal conditions for using the weapon have not been met," Mr Prache, the prosecutor, told a news conference.
The detained police officer's lawyer, speaking on French TV channel BFMTV, said the officer was sorry and "devastated." The officer did what he thought was necessary in the moment, attorney Laurent-Franck Lienard told the news outlet.Loading...
"He doesn't get up in the morning to kill people," Mr Lienard said of the officer, whose name has not been released.
"He really didn't want to kill. But now he must defend himself, as he's the one who's detained and sleeping in prison."
French President Emmanuel Macron is set to hold a new government emergency meeting later on Friday after riots erupted for the third night in a row across the country, reported BFM TV, citing the Elysee palace.
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