Unrest broke out in a Paris suburb on Tuesday night after a 17-year-old was shot dead by police during a traffic stop.
suburb on Tuesday night after a 17-year-old was shot dead by police during a traffic stop, with protesters setting fire to vehicles and allegedly launching fireworks toward riot officers.capital, said the police officer had been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in the wake of the shooting. The teenager, named only as “Nahel M,” died from his injuries in the suburb, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Another passenger in the car was also detained before being released soon after, with authorities on Wednesday still looking for another passenger they say fled the scene on foot. In a statement, the Nahel’s lawyers denied an allegation reportedly made by police in a statement that officers’ lives had been at risk because the driver had threatened to run them over.purportedly showing the shooting. The footage shows two officers leaning into the driver’s side of a yellow car stopped in the road.
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