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| Paris erupts as police 'execution' of teenage driver sparks riots: Youths set cars alight and pelt officers with fireworks in night of anarchy after 'French-Algerian 17-year-old' was shot dead by cop who told him 'I'm going to lodge a bullet in your head' |
| 2023-06-28 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Riots erupted on the streets of Gay Paree overnight after a police officer rubbed out a French-Algerian teenager during a traffic stop, after telling him: 'I'm going to lodge a bullet in your head.' "Lodge a bullet in your head"? Who talks like that? Nael M., a 17-year-old delivery driver, was gunned at the wheel of a Mercedes in the western suburb of Nanterre, sparking a night of anarchy in the French capital. The killing, described by witnesses as 'an execution', was captured on video which quickly spread across social media, fuelling anger at the police after they initially tried to claim they opened fire after the driver rammed them with his car. Youths poured onto the streets on Tuesday, setting fire to bins and hurling fireworks at police. As night fell, cars and buildings were torched and the violence spread to other suburbs across the city. The police officer who shot the boy was last night in jug, and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin appealed for calm. By Wednesday morning police had made 24 arrests. Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike!he yelled...... a picture of smiling Nael was released by his family, along with the words: 'The love of my life'. Shades of Lil Trayvon Darmanin told the National Assembly in Gay Paree that the images posted on social media were 'extremely shocking and worrying,' and urged people to 'respect the grief of the family and the presumption of innocence of the police'. The shooting happened close to the Nanterre-Prefecture RER train station, near Nelson-Mandela Square, behind La Défense business district. Verified video of the shooting shows an armed traffic officer pointing his service pistol into the yellow hired Mercedes AMG and saying: 'I'm going to lodge a bullet in your head'. There is then a bang and the car lurches forward, before Nael dies at the scene of the shooting, which happened at about 8.30am. The victim was confirmed dead soon after 9am. There were two other unidentified people in the vehicle at the time. I thought he was a Delivery Driver? Prosecutors confirmed that the unnamed officer responsible for the shooting was being investigated for 'murder'. Officers claimed the teenager had been driving the car erratically, but questions have been raised over the version of events presented by the officers involved. 'At first police said the teenager had tried to run them over, but they changed their tune when the video appeared,' said an investigating source. As the violence intensified, police reported nine arrests in Nanterre by 10pm. 'There are mobs setting fire to cars and shooting firework rockets at officers,' said a Gay Paree police front man. 'Nine people are in jug, mainly for public order offences.' Local residents held a protest outside the police headquarters. Some groups set alight barricades and rubbish bins, smashed up a bus stop and threw firecrackers toward police, who responded with tear gas and dispersion grenades, according to videos broadcast on local media. The IGPN national police inspectorate has opened an investigation into possible intentional killing by a person holding a position of public authority. A separate probe is being carried out by regional police into the driver's failure to halt and alleged attempt to kill a person holding a position of public authority. Gay Paree police chief Laurent Nunez said the action of the officer 'raises questions', while claiming that the officer may have 'felt threatened.' The family's lawyer Yassine Bouzrou told the same channel that while all parties needed to wait for the result of the investigation the images 'clearly showed a policeman killing a young man in cold blood.' 'This is a long way from any kind of legitimate defence' he said, adding the family had filed a complaint, accusing police of 'lying' by initially claiming the car had tried to run down the officers. 'It's so sad, he was so young,' said Samia Bough, 62, the teenager's former neighbour, who came to lay a bouquet of yellow roses at the scene. In 2022, a record 13 deaths were recorded after refusals to stop for traffic controls. Five coppers have been charged in these cases. Authorities and police unions blame the 2022 figures on more dangerous driving behaviour, but researchers also point to a 2017 law modifying the conditions of the use of their weapon by the police. Two weeks ago, a 19-year-old was killed by a police officer he had injured in the legs with his car in the western town of Angouleme. The left reacted with anger, saying police had no right to kill people simply because they refused to stop. 'Yes, a refusal to stop is against the law. But death is not one of the sanctions provided for by the penal code,' tweeted the coordinator of the hard left La Belle France Unbowed (LFI) party, Manuel Bompard. 'A refusal to stop does not provide a licence to kill,' said Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 Throw a gas bomb, catch a bullet. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-06-28 20:35 |
| #5 The cop could always use the Alec Baldwin defense. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2023-06-28 15:07 |
| #3 "Je ne peux pas respirer!" "Je ne peux pas respirer!" |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-06-28 11:34 |
| #2 What was he delivering in that Mercedes? Why / who were the other passengers? I can't wait to hear George Floyd in French. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2023-06-28 11:07 |
| #1 Cochons Sans Frontières (CSF) |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-06-28 09:47 |