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On 27 June 2023, Nahel Merzouk (25 February 2006 – 27 June 2023), [1] a 17-year-old French youth of Moroccan and Algerian descent, [2] was shot at point-blank range and killed by police officer Florian M., when he didn't comply with a request to turn off ignition and attempted to drive away in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, France.
The police officer who killed Merzouk was a former member of this motorcycle brigade and of a specialized urban violence unit in Seine-Saint-Denis. [ 35 ] In 2020, widely-circulated video footage of police violence perpetrated against Michel Zecler [ fr ] , a black music producer, for not wearing a face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
The French teen, identified only as Nahel, was shot during a traffic stop Tuesday in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. The post 17-yo’s killing by French cop rips open racial wounds appeared first ...
The mother of a 17-year-old who was fatally shot by a French police officer in a Paris suburb has shared the last words she exchanged with her son before he died.
The worst riots in recent French history occurred in 2005, after two teenagers who had not committed any crimes were electrocuted as they hid from a police chase in an electricity substation ...
This escalated the violence; the Algerian demonstrators used barricades to attack the police and burned at least two police cars between 5:00 pm and 5:30 pm. Seven people were killed: six French workers from Algeria, and one worker from metropolitan France, who was a member of the General Confederation of Labour. [7]
French riot police stand in line during protests in Nanterre, west of Paris, on 28 June 2023, a day after a 17-year-old boy was shot in the chest by police at point-blank range in Nanterre, a ...
The 6 February 1934 crisis (also known as the Veterans' Riot [1]) was an anti-parliamentarist street demonstration in Paris, organized by multiple far-right leagues that culminated in a riot on the Place de la Concorde, near the building used for the French National Assembly. The police shot and killed 17 people, nine of whom were far-right ...