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The Government of France has deployed this Wednesday some 2,000 police officers in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre after a night of violence that ended with 31 detainees following the death of Naël, a 17-year-old teenager who was shot to death by a police officer during a traffic control.
The Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmaninappeared before the media this morning to announce an exceptional device “to maintain public order” in a message in which he appealed for calm and to wait for the results of the “judicial truth”, which he hopes will arrive “as quickly as possible”. .
The events took place around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, when the 17-year-old was shot in the chest at a checkpoint. At first, the Police reported an attempted hit-and-run, but a video has denied this version and an agent remains in custody for his alleged responsibility in a crime of homicide, according to the Nanterre Prosecutor’s Office.
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The night of protests It ended with about 40 vehicles on fire and the authorities fear further riots. Other incidents, although of a lower level than those in Nanterre, have also been reported in other areas of the Paris metropolitan region, according to Franceinfo.
Meanwhile, the government advocates waiting for the results of the investigations, while the French president, Emmanuel Macronhas shared his “excitement” for this incident during the meeting of the Council of Ministers, as explained by the government spokesman.
?? | Anger breaks out in the Nanterre district, on the outskirts of Paris, France. The death of a young man, at the hands of the police after being shot at a traffic control, unleashed the fury of several groups of people who are causing riots. pic.twitter.com/YWEiDCiAwx
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For his part, the mayor of Nanterre, Patrick Jarry, asked this afternoon that “the circumstances of the tragedy be clarified as soon as possible”, asking the population for “calm”. The City Council has made available to the Police the images captured by the video surveillance cameras of the scene.
Jarry, who has transferred his condolences to the loved ones of the deceased, has appealed “to each and every one of them for restraint and dignity, despite the legitimate emotion that this tragedy arouses”
