Protests erupt in Paris after police shoot killing teen during traffic stop

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Protests broke out in the French capital overnight after police officers shot and killed a teenager during a traffic stop.

Cars and garbage cans were set on fire and fireworks were lit as riot police clashed with protesters in a haze of tear gas in the suburb of Nanterre, west of Paris.

Protests is nothing new in France and happen all the time for a range of reasons, some serious some less serious.

The protests followed the death of a 17-year-old, named by his family’s lawyers as Naël M, earlier Tuesday, after he was pulled over by police in his vehicle.

“Acting on behalf of the family of the deceased young man, we announce that we will file a complaint for intentional homicide against the policeman who fired the shot in the coming days,” his lawyer Yassine Bouzrou said in a statement online.

Something expectable after the family has lost one of its members under these circumstances.

Videos of the incident, widely shared on social media and verified by Reuters news agency, appear to show two police officers standing beside a stationary yellow Mercedes AMG car, with at least one officer pointing a gun at the driver. The car begins to drive off, and the officer pulls the trigger, at close range, through the driver’s window. Later footage shows the car crashed at the side of the road.

Bouzrou accused the police officer of having an “intention to kill,” stating that an individual can be overheard in the clip saying: “I’m going to put a bullet in your head

Intention to kill must be established but if the footage and audio show clearly the police officer stating : 'I am going to put a bullet in your head' then that's not good news for him. Audio evidence is quite incriminating.

According to the French newspaper Le Monde, police initially said their lives were in danger as the car had tried to hit them and the driver did not comply with an order to stop.

Bouzrou rejected the police claims, saying in his statement that they are “formally denied by viewing the video.”

“We are a long way from self-defense” he said separately in comments to French broadcaster BFMTV. “We have police officers who then lie because they didn’t know that there was a video. So they made up a story saying that there was an attempt on their lives.”

It seems the police officers have lied and they were not in a state of 'self-defence'. Making up a story after killing a teenager-when a little earlier one of them was saying: I am going to put a bullet in your head- makes the case for the prosecution easy.

How many years do you think they deserve in prison?

i thought the police didnt carry guns i n france

originally posted by: HODOSKE
i thought the police didnt carry guns i n france

They do but the rates of police shootings are much lower than that of the US. I am not quite sure if all police officers carry guns with them.

originally posted by: HODOSKE
i thought the police didnt carry guns i n france

And protests never ever happen in Paris….

If Americans had any sense, they would have done this decades ago.

The time for a revolution in the US has passed.
Now, the puppet masters know how much they can get away with.


Viva la France!

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Video circulating on social media shows a police officer pointing a gun at the driver of a car, before a gunshot is heard. The car then crashes to a stop.

The teenager, named as Nahel, died of bullet wounds in the chest despite help from emergency services.

The officer accused of shooting him has been detained on homicide charges.

Enough is enough....

As Paul Harvey would have said , "you have to wait for the rest if the story"

The teen was 17, you are allowed to drive a car in France with 18. He had no driving licence and was well known to the police because of traffic violations and was stopped again because of that. In the video you can see the two cops talking to him, then the boy tries to escape, suddenly accelerates. Around a second later the shot is fired.

I am not a friend of cops and especially killer cops but i would understand how what we see in the video could be considered as an assault on a police officer. And i bet in other so called advanced nations with way more trigger happy cops, in the same situation, at least two full mags would have been blown into that car.

We really don´t know what happened beforehand, we don´t know about his full criminal history, the MSM tells us only about the traffic violations and repeated driving without a license. In Germany the MSM calls him a truck driver while he had no driving licence and wasn´t even allowed to drive a car, how can somebody like this be a truck driver? Something is really wrong with the MSM reports, for whatever reason.

We simply don´t know the whole story from the very beginning, we just know the end and then we only know what we have to believe, what is told to us by the MSM. So in reality we know almost nothing and what we think that we know does not originate from neutral reporting but feels a bit like controlled opinion making, for whatever reason.

I mean, it´s the propaganda MSM in the western world that tells us what we have to believe. Again at the same time in all involved nations (remember Corona, Ukraine, Climate) while the rest of the world couldn´t care less about what happened there.

a reply to: HODOSKE

My understanding is that police officers in France do indeed carry guns.

But It's important to note that the use of firearms by police officers in France is regulated, and subject to strict guidelines.

a reply to: DerBeobachter

Ah yes, driving without a license, one of those crimes that is often punished with execution. It's right up there with rape and murder in terms of worst crimes.

originally posted by: DerBeobachter
I am not a friend of cops and especially killer cops but i would understand how what we see in the video could be considered as an assault on a police officer.

WHAT!!!

How can a kid driving away from a policeman pointing a gun at him at point blank range be considered an assault on a police officer?

Get real.

What you have said says a lot about the state of this ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IN CLOWN WORLD!

Sorry for ASSAULTING your avatar. I'm going now, please don't shoot me!

originally posted by: Gothmog
As Paul Harvey would have said , "you have to wait for the rest if the story"

And a smarter person finds out for themself and perhaps learns to quote others properly.

What really, really amazes me (if anyone can answer this) is a young adult, not a kid, gets shot and within a few hours there are numerous people on the streets who see fit to riot and burn property. Whether it was in self defence or otherwise. His past hasn't been released yet so don't come with the poor boy story yet. But why and how were this amount of people mobilised to break the law.

a reply to: crayzeed

Social media.
Internet.

I'm with you, this kid probably didn't deserve to die, but I'm guessing he was no angel either.

originally posted by: chiefsmom
a reply to: crayzeed

Social media.
Internet.

I'm with you, this kid probably didn't deserve to die, but I'm guessing he was no angel either.

Being an anger or not is besides the point. He was executed by a police officer who said: I’m going to put a bullet in your head' online video and audio

Surely the intention is there. Driving away from cops isn't a criminal offence. Not being an angel isn't a criminal offense either. Making yourself judge, jury, and executioner, is a crime and that's why the police officer is being prosecuted for homicide with intention. But as tempers are running high in France I don't think him and his colleague will make it later on in life. France is notorious for revenge cases.

idiot kid thought he was in N.Y.C

couldn't be his car if he didn't have a lic.

sheesh, cop says that and the kid tries to get away.

hands up, don't shoot.

a reply to: HODOSKE

Quite the contrary

Police in France carry assault rifles on the day-to-day.

originally posted by: nerbot
a reply to: DerBeobachter
How can a kid driving away from a policeman pointing a gun at him at point blank range be considered an assault on a police officer?

The same way that you can be guilty of assault on a police officer when you face smashed into their fist (or baton, or jack boot)...

I'm fully supportive of real law enforcement peace officers, but these days, especially in some places (like the blue States), it seems like they are intentionally looking for the worst of the worst - thugs who enjoy lording it over the peons and aren't afraid to use their position of authority for their own personal enjoyment and benefit.

originally posted by: AlienBorg
a reply to: chiefsmom
Driving away from cops isn't a criminal offence.

Ummm... in France? I don't know... but in most places, yes, it is, if they have a legitimate reason (specific articulable facts supporting suspicion you are involved in a crime) to stop you.