Two days after the death of young Nahel, 17, shot dead by a police officer after refusing to comply during a traffic check in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), the public prosecutor announced Thursday the placement in detention of the officer responsible for the fatal shot. A judicial investigation is opened for intentional homicide. Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, indicates that 40,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized in France this evening.
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• 12:34 p.m. : The 38-year-old biker policeman, author of the fatal shot on the young Nahel, is administratively suspended, indicates Gérald Darmanin. He must be presented to an examining magistrate with a view to a possible indictment for intentional homicide.
• 12:32 p.m. : The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announces that 40,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized this Thursday evening in France, including 5,000 in Paris, after two nights of clashes.
• 12:16 p.m. : According to information of our colleagues from France Info collected from Matignon, a triggering of the state of emergency in the face of the nocturnal clashes observed in France for 48 hours ” is not an option considered today “. The president of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti, had asked for the state of emergency to be triggered ” without delay “, just like Éric Zemmour, of the Reconquest party.
• 12:10 p.m. : As a reminder, a white march in tribute to Nahel is scheduled for Thursday from 2:00 p.m. in Nanterre, at the call of the mother of the teenager killed on Tuesday. The meeting place is fixed in front of the Hauts-de-Seine prefecture.
• 12:02 p.m. : The police officer responsible for the shooting and his colleague concerned during the intervention of June 27 were heard ” Many times by the floor. Surveillance videos and amateur videos taken during the check that led to Nahel’s death were also used. The author police officer confided in particular to having had “ fear that someone will be hit ” after restarting the vehicle and having ” felt threatened “.
• 11:46 a.m. : Earlier this Thursday, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron called for calm, after two nights marked by riots in France. Find all this information in our article.
Violence against police stations, schools, town halls, against the Republic, is unjustifiable.
Thank you to the police, gendarmes, firefighters and elected officials mobilized.
Meditation, Justice and calm must guide the next few hours.
—Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) June 29, 2023
• 11:44 a.m. : Listen again to the speech of the public prosecutor of Nanterre, Pascal Prache, who requested the placement in provisional detention of the police officer responsible for the fatal shot on Nahel.
The prosecution considers that the legal conditions for the use of the weapon are not met…
Pascal Prache, prosecutor of Nanterre
• 11:33 a.m. : The police officer responsible for the shooting which cost the life of Nahel must now be presented before two investigating judges from Nanterre.
• 11:30 a.m. : In his speech, the prosecutor indicates that ” the legal conditions of the use of a weapon were only not reunited “.
• 11:20 a.m. : The Public Prosecutor of Nanterre, Pascal Prache, recalled the events that occurred on June 27 in Nanterre. The policeman who shot Nahel was remanded in custody.
At the end of the day on Tuesday June 27, during a road check in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), a 17-year-old boy, Nahel, was shot dead by a police officer. The officer opened fire when the driver refused to comply and restarted his vehicle.
The scene, filmed by passers-by, sparked a lively controversy in France regarding the use of lethal force and questions the self-defense of the police in this situation.
Clashes erupted on the night of June 27 to 28 and last night in several cities across the country.