20h42 – Young killed in Nantes: the family will be civil party

The family of the young man killed by a CRS during a check in Nantes will be a civil party, announced his lawyer Saturday, after the indictment of the police and a new night of tension.

"The family will be civil party from Monday, "said Loïc Bourgeois AFP, lawyer of the mother and sister of Aboubakar Fofana, 22, from Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val d'Oise).

For now, "they want to be left alone, with their tragedy," he added.

The death of the young man provoked four consecutive nights of urban violence in the so-called neighborhoods "sensitive" of Nantes. The night from Friday to Saturday was however calmer than the previous ones, according to the police. There are thus 35 vehicles burned throughout the agglomeration, including Saint-Herblain, Orvault, Rezé and the neighborhoods of Nantes Breil and Bellevue.

Gendarmes mobiles and CRS wiped jets of Molotov badtails Breil and Bellevue and responded with tear gas grenades. The beginning of the fire hit a building of the Nantes Habitat social landlord in the Breil district. The police raised their device at about 4:30 am

– The police officer indicted –

Before these incidents broke out, the officer responsible for the shooting had been released under judicial supervision, in accordance with requisitions of the Nantes prosecutor Pierre Sennès. He was indicted for "willful badault and death without intention to give".

In police custody, the brigadier-in-chief admitted to having lied in his first free trial where the legitimate defense. The CRS stated "that in fact he (it) tried to lean into the badpit of the vehicle driven by the youth to grab the steering wheel and try to stop the maneuver" of leak engaged in reverse by the driver said the prosecutor. "That's when," he says, "in the context of what he calls a hand-to-hand combat, the gunshot accidentally left to fatally hit the driver," he said. Sennès at his press conference Friday

"It is not up to me (?) To arbitrate tonight between these different versions.I stick to the criminal characterization of the facts," added the prosecutor.

Aboubakar Fofana, under an arrest warrant for "robbery, concealment and criminal conspiracy", was shot in the neck by police on Tuesday around 20:30. He died shortly after at the hospital.

– "Misunderstanding" –

"It is incomprehensible that the police officer is released" under judicial control, said Said, an badociation official living in Breil. Even "misunderstanding" for the charge: "+ Willful wounds and injuries resulting in death without intention to give +, then kill without doing so, it is the Bisounours," he told a reporter

"How could it be an accidental shot when you took out your gun and triggered the security," he wonders, considering that the new version of the policeman is "a second lie". "We are collecting testimonies and no one has seen any alleged melee, the policeman was standing, hands outstretched and made + boom +", Said said.

"We will make sure that the truth breaks out, "adds Chris, 36, a mediator and a" big "in the Breil district. "Anger is far from over and it will not stop until justice is done," he adds. "We will continue our work of conviction with those who have hesitations to testify" he badured.

Since the beginning of urban violence, many public buildings have been burned or degraded in the agglomeration of Nantes, including town halls, houses of the inhabitants, high school, school, etc.

On Saturday, the city of Nantes suggested to the inhabitants to give books to help to reconstitute the collections of the badociative libraries of Dervallières and Malakoff, both burned during the week. "To this end, bins are set up in libraries and media libraries in Nantes to receive donations of books for the benefit of these two badociative libraries," said the town hall in a statement.