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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.
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 ...
This photograph taken 29 June 2023 in Brest, western of France shows a Biocoop, an organic supermarket partly burnt, two days after a 17-year-old boy was shot in the chest by police at point-blank ...
French president’s words come in the wake of protests near Paris, where dozens of cars were burned. Prosecutors have opened an investigation into the killing of 17-year-old during traffic stop
[14] [15] Fearing greater unrest, Gérald Darmanin, Interior Minister of France, deployed 1,200 riot police and gendarmes in and around Paris, later adding an additional 2,000. [9] [14] [15] On 29 June, Darmanin announced that the government would deploy 40,000 officers nationwide, [16] including RAID and GIGN counter-terrorist units, [17] to ...
Exclusive: The family hope that Nahel’s death will bring ‘real change’, his aunt tells Bel Trew in Paris
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.
The perpetrator, Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov, was an 18-year-old Russian immigrant of Chechen ethnic descent, born in Moscow, Russia. [31] [32] Chechnya is a Muslim-majority republic and federal subject of the Russian Federation. [33] Anzorov had moved to France with refugee status 12 years earlier as a six-year-old boy.