A French police officer is being investigated for homicide over the fatal shooting a 17-year-old boy in the Paris suburb of Nanterre after he failed to comply with an order to stop his car, the local prosecutor’s office said.
The officer fired at the boy, who subsequently died from his wounds, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday. A video shared on social media shows two police officers beside the car, a Mercedes AMG, one of whom shoots as the driver pulls away.
Sporadic clashes broke out between youths and police on Tuesday evening as anger over the death of the teenager grew in the local community. Some groups set alight barricades and garbage bins, smashed up a bus stop and threw firecrackers toward police, who responded with tear gas and dispersion grenades. Nine people were arrested.
After a record 13 deaths from police shootings in France during traffic stops last year, this was the second fatal incident in such circumstances in 2023.
Three people were killed by police gunfire after refusing to comply with a traffic stop in 2021 and two in 2020. A Reuters tally of fatal shootings in 2021 and 2022 shows the majority of victims were black or Arabic origin.
“As a mother from Nanterre, I have a feeling of insecurity for our children,” said Mornia Labssi, a local resident and anti-racism campaigner, who said she had spoken to the victim’s family, which she said was of Algerian origin.
One passenger was taken into police custody but later released. Police were unable to contact another passenger, the prospector’s office said. The driver was “known to the judicial services for having refused to comply with a traffic stop” on a previous occasion, it said.
The Paris police chief, Laurent Nunez, told BFM TV that “this act raises questions for me” and that the justice system would decide whether or not it was appropriate.
The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, tweeted that the General Inspectorate of the National Police was investigating “to shed light on the circumstances of this drama”.
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based what the fuck do you think is going to happen when you drive off
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NICE!!!!
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could do with happening more often
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https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/french-officer-who-shot-teen-donations-victims_uk_64a42656e4b0dcb22c47bd24
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Il a évidemment été abattu par haine raciale. Mais je ne vais pas pleurer ça mort.
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Le policier a peut etre mal reagi, mais si il avait coopéré il se serait pas fait shoot, en quelque sorte il est responsable de sa mort.
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Here is a piece of advice for anyone who wants to riot over a shooting, WAIT UNTIL THE INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN COMPLETED, YOU ABSOLUTE MORONS!!!
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They are too primitive to look into the future
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Honestly if the police would’ve slap me with their pistols i would try to run too
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Good
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The police did their job. Very stupid to drive away when they have a gun in your face lol. All those imigrants are a losers🤣
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The question is why did he put a gun to his face? You're just excusing racism,and so is this comment section.
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Pourquoi ? Delinquant, 17ans, sans Permis, voiture volée, a manquée de tuee 3 personnes avant d'être contrôler
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Bro was not even an immigrant
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He was of Maroccon ethnicity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Nahel_Merzouk
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Gross, xenophobia 😷
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I hope your father and your family will get shot by police. Lets see ig you then will say that the police did their job you idiot
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Nah because we are not arab so we cant be shoot by police :ddd , and we are civilized not animals
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Good shoot, based French police don't fuck around I guess.
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Why couldn´t he had just shot the car tire?
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That doesn’t stop a car.
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Oh really? I didn´t know that, in that case i don´t think he could´ve done anything else if the kid was dangerous.
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I mean it makes it harder to drive if you pop it. But I’ve seen videos of suspects vehicles in a pursuits go miles and miles on the rims of their vehicles with no tires at all at high speed, sparks flying! So I would definitely don’t think you could trust it as is a way to stop this guy if his intent was to run over people, which apparently he almost did twice.
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Hey
@lft do cops wear body cams over there? Are the police in France mostly armed or unarmed?
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All French police are armed and body cams have been introduced somewhat recently.
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"I have a feeling of insecurity for our children" well dont raise your kids to be retarded lunatics and you wont have to worry.
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They are protesting and rioting over this? 🤦♂️
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Was he of basketball descent?
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He also would have lived if the policeman didn't gun him down, IDIOT.
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tell me, would you not pull the trigger if a car you stopped if they started to drive in a knee jerk reaction? dude probably thought the kid was gonna try and run him over given the current world attitude towards police.
does that make him innocent? no. both the kid and the officer were stupid to do what they did. both are equally accountable.
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If he did not try to harm the officers i dont see why the person deserved to get fatally shot
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So criminals should just let be set free if they don't harm police officers?
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I understand that the following can be used to justify evil attitudes from the police, but: If you dont follow the instructions of the police and you think you are above everything, you will fuck around and find out. Just be cordial and educated (probably hard for this community) and you will be on your way, jesus christ.
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Another future 'stabber' bites the tarmac...thank you for your service officer !
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Hi French people in this section, I wanted to ask something, how are you all feeling with the protests going on? Do you all feel like real shit is going to happen or is it going to be forgotten later?
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He’s like French George Floyd. Jacque Floi de Nanterre. I dunno what French law says, but this would definitely be a no-go under the fleeing felon rule.
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Maybe these idiots should comply so they wouldn't get shot
I've been arrested and complied. Didn't even get tazed
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"As the mother of Nanterre I am responisble for giving him a big dick via biying him an AMG for his birthday", 17yr old with a fast car and the police on his tail, almost expected tbh.
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Honestly? GOOD
Ive been in Western Europe enough to be sick to death of little cunts like this who have no respect for anyone. Literally cant even respect the police when theyre pointing a weapon at them.
Good fucking riddance. I hope he was alive long enough to regret choosing to live his life as a cunt. These people are a plague
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As a French, all I can say is that we don't fear the police. We fear this type of guy that got killed.
Obviously his "community" is going to go crazy, but in my opinion, that police officer did his job.
That stupid guy parents didn't do their. Main issue is the education, and this country is becoming a shitshow because of these people.
“As a mother from Nanterre, I have a feeling of insecurity for our children” this is so false, that bullshit community that doesn't want to educate their kid is the insecurity french people are fearing ! Your kid Mornia Labssi and the lack of education because you're just a lazy and stupid community is the main issue, not the police doing well their job !
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité
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Fuck you. Racist cunt. I hope your legs melt like cheese next time you walk out of your house. Motherfucking racist. You "fear this type of guy" fucking coward. This type of guy is gonna take over Europe. I know my comment is low class as hell I DO NOT CARE. YOU ARE INSENSITIVE AS HELL. DIE OF CENTRAL AFRICAN AIDS.
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as a fellow French citizen, you are fucking stupid.
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I agree, he could have just obey but he must have had some crooked shit going on
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I dont know the exact reasons for their behaviour but ive been living nearish for a couple of years and im constantly trying to find ways to not generalise and hate these people. I wish this would happen to all of those asshole teens
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