A pot of support for the family of the policeman who shot the young Nahel last week in Nanterre, collected Monday during the day more than a million euros, four days after its launch.
This Tuesday at midnight, this kitty launched on the online platform Gofundme totaled around 68,000 donations, for a total value of 1.3 million euros. “ Support for the family of the Nanterre policeman, Florian M. who did his job and who today pays a high price “, Says the text accompanying the kitty, created by the former spokesperson for the Eric Zemmour campaign, Jean Messiha.
The police officer who killed Nahel, 17, during a traffic stop, was indicted on Thursday for intentional homicide and remanded in custody. The teenager’s death sparked several nights of riots.
The creation and success of this kitty provoked the indignation of the political class on the left, the LFI deputy for Val-de-Marne Clémence Guetté denouncing on Twitter a “ indecency and utter horror “. “ Nearly a million euros collected on the initiative of a far-right polemicist in support of a police officer who kills a teenager. The message ? It pays to kill a young Arab “, for her part reacted the MEP Manon Aubry, asking for its deletion.
The far-right kitty in support of the man who killed #Nahel deemed to comply with its rules by the platform that hosts it.
It will reach the million euros. Indecency and absolute horror. pic.twitter.com/6qfm7bUhZF
— Clemence Guette (@Clemence_Guette) July 3, 2023
” This kitty probably does not contribute to bringing appeasement »
“ The fact that it is indeed a person close to the extreme right who launched this kitty does not undoubtedly contribute to bring appeasement “, declared Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne at the end of a meeting with all the political groups to discuss this tragedy and the riots that followed. She added that it would be up to the courts to decide “ if applicable “on the legality of this kitty, but that” it is not the government that can decide whether or not to [son] existence “.
Reaction of Elisabeth Borne concerning the kitty for the policeman who killed Nahel
A spokesperson for Gofundme assured AFP that the kitty was “compliant” with its rules, because the funds “ will be paid directly to the family in question. The family has been added as a beneficiary and therefore the funds will be paid directly to them “. A second pot of support for the policeman’s family, launched on Leetchi by a policeman on behalf of the Amicale motocycliste des Hauts-de-Seine, accumulated nearly 60,000 euros.
A pot of support for Nahel’s family was created on Leetchi and reached around 306,000 euros on Monday at 2 p.m.
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