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The video footage of a French police officer shooting a 17-year-old teenager dead at point-blank range through a car window has shocked all of France. Deputies in the National Assembly held a ...
Protests across France sparked by the police shooting of a 17-year-old last Tuesday have been described as like a “mini civil war” by a British national living in Marseille.
A police killing caught on video. Protests and rioting fueled by long-simmering tensions over law enforcement treatment of minorities. The events in France following the death of a 17-year-old ...
Police shootings in France are significantly less common than in the U.S, but have been on the rise since 2017 The post Shooting in France shows US is not alone in struggles with racism, police ...
France saw a rise in police violence in France in the years before the killing. [13] In 2017, a law was passed permitting police to shoot at a vehicle fleeing a traffic stop, if the driver was putting the passengers or passersby at risk. This shooting was the third fatal shooting that occurred during a traffic stop in France in 2023.
Officer who shot teen dead under investigation for ‘voluntary homicide’
A man opened fire with a rifle in downtown Tours, killing four people and wounding seven others before being shot by police and arrested. [97] 19 October 2001: Oyonnax, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: 2 3 [n 1] 5: A man shot and killed his wife and one of his daughters and wounded his two other daughters before attempting suicide. [98] 11 August 2001
A series of riots in France began on 27 June 2023 following the fatal shooting of Nahel Merzouk in an encounter with two police officers in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris. Residents started a protest outside the police headquarters on the 27 June, which later escalated into rioting as demonstrators set cars alight, destroyed bus stops, and shot ...