France will deploy 40,000 police officers overnight to quell violence that engulfed cities and towns in the wake of a deadly police shooting, France’s interior minister said Thursday.
Scores of police officers have been injured, according to ministers.“All this has to stop,” the minister declared. He gave no details about the types and seriousness of the injuries.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who oversees the police, later gave a higher figure of 170 injured.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.officer who shot and killed a 17-year-old driver will be investigated for voluntary homicide, following two days of fires and violent protests, prosecutors said Thursday.suburbs and unrest spread to some other French cities and towns, despite increased security efforts and the president’s calls for calm.
The killing of 17-year-old Nahel during a traffic check Tuesday, captured on video, shocked the country and stirred up long-simmering tensions between young people and police in housing projects and other disadvantaged neighborhoods aroundNahel’s surname has not been released by authorities or by his family. In earlier statements, lawyers for the family spelled the name Nael.
Two magistrates have been named to lead the investigation, he said. Under the French legal system, which differs from the U.S. and British systems, magistrates often assigned to lead investigations. Prache said he requested that the officer be held in custody. That decision is to be made by another magistrate.earlier this month was handed preliminary charges of “voluntary homicide,” according to a statement by the local prosecutor on Wednesday. The man was fatally shot by an officer as he allegedly tried to escape a traffic stop. The investigation is still ongoing.
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