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Further violence was under way on Thursday night in Nantes for the third night in a row, following the death Tuesday night of a young man killed by a policeman who was taken into custody.
Several cars were on fire around midnight in the Bellevue district, AFP journalists said.
"Not far from 10 vehicles" were affected by a fire at around 12:30 am, according to a police source, who reported "mobile groups of 20 to 30 hooded people" in the neighborhood.
A 14-year-old miner was arrested in possession of a can of gasoline and wicks in the Clos-Toreau district, the police source told AFP, adding that he had been taken into custody.
In the early evening, a thousand people had participated in a white march in the Breil district in Nantes to claim " truth "and" justice for Abu ", the elderly victim aged 22.
The inhabitants of this district had gathered at 6:00 pm in front of 68, rue des Plantes, where the facts took place. "Burrow !!!!" and "Police kills" were written on the wall where the car driven by the young man was embedded after the driver had been hit by the shot.
The policeman was placed in custody Thursday at 12:40 by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) "on the head of voluntary violence by person depositary of public authority resulting in death without intent to give," said in a statement Thursday the public prosecutor of Nantes Pierre Sennès
"It is only after this measure of custody that the public prosecutor of Nantes will be able to make known its decision on the follow-up to be reserved to this case", is (19659002) Visiting Thursday in Nantes, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe demanded "the greatest transparency" on the circumstances of the death of the young man. He also expressed his "strongest condemnation" of the violence committed.
The Minister of the Interior Gérard Collomb badured him since Marseille that the government would do "everything to appease the situation".
On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, more than forty vehicles were burned in the so-called "sensitive" neighborhoods of Nantes: the Breil, Bellevue, the Dervallières and Malakoff. Seven public buildings and a dozen shops were also burned.
The prefect of Loire-Atlantique, Nicole Klein, went Thursday night in the neighborhoods of Breil and Dervallières to support the police.
"I understand grief, but I do not understand the destruction of public property," Klein told the press.
– "We're already poor" –
"We burn our neighborhoods is already poor, we can speak in another way that violence, "said a resident of the Breil neighborhood Thursday morning, divided between anger towards young people after the destruction and the police who are" never there "
The relatives of the murdered young man had called for calm on Wednesday evening by the voice of their lawyer. Under the arrest warrant for "organized robbery, concealment and criminal conspiracy", the young driver tried to escape by backtracking, said Wednesday the prosecutor Sennès.
According to a source close to the record, the five colleagues of the shotgun officer, heard the night of the events, said that the driver made a reverse at "very high speed", to the point of risking to reverse two of the four children playing on the pavement behind the car. According to them, one of the police officers just had time to push one of the children, to take the other in his arms and to take shelter in front of the CRS van.
police have not been confirmed by the prosecutor and are contradicted by local residents interviewed by AFP who say they attended the scene. According to a woman who filmed the scene, there was "no CRS behind the car, he did not crush anyone."
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