French protesters erected barricades, lit fires and clashed with police in the streets of some French cities as tensions mounted over the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old.
Police investigators stand by charred buses after a third night of unrest, Friday, June 30, 2023 at the bus depot of Aubervilliers, outside Paris. A dozen of buses have been destroyed. Protesters erected barricades, lit fires and shot fireworks at police who responded with tear gas and water cannons in French streets overnight as tensions grew over the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old that has shocked the nation.
“We sometimes have the feeling that some of them are living in the streets the video games that have intoxicated them,” he said of rioters.shot and killed Armored police vehicles rammed through the charred remains of cars that had been flipped and set ablaze in Nanterre. A relative of the 17-year-old, who only has been identified by his first name, Nahel, said the boy's family is of Algerian descent.
The officer said he feared he and his colleague or someone else could be hit by the car as Nahel attempted to flee, according to the prosecutor.
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