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Youth groups clashed with police in the city of Nantes, in western France, Wednesday morning, after a 22-year-old man was shot dead by a police officer during a police raid. A police check.
Cars were burned, Molotov cocktails were thrown, a shopping mall burned and a library and several damaged buildings in the city's Breil neighborhood as local youths clashed with police after the shooting .
The police watchdog opened an investigation into the circumstances of the shooting of the man. Johanna Rolland, socialist mayor of Nantes, said that the death of the man must be perfectly clear and that any investigation must be conducted independently and transparently.
The local police chief, Jean-Christophe Bertrand, said: 8:30 pm, when the police stopped a car
The identity of the driver was not clear and the agents were received the order to bring the driver to the police station, he added. The driver then spilled his car, struck and slightly injured a police officer.
"One of his colleagues then shot, touching the young man who unfortunately died," said Bertrand
. police check in a vehicle after "refusing to comply" with police requests. He was hit in the carotid artery and declared dead on his arrival at the hospital, according to police sources.
Steven, 24, who lives in the area, told AFP that he had heard explosions and went to investigate. "I saw everything burn, there were fires in garbage cans, cars, they broke everything, it lasted a long time," he said, adding that the situation then calmed down. .
Violence also broke out in two other areas, Dervallières and Malakoff, where cars were set on fire. Local associations and youth leaders in the fields came out to calm young people.
Poor relations between police and youth on French cities have been a blemish for more than a decade and politicians have struggled to solve the problem.
French police are regularly accused of using excessive force in the poorest neighborhoods, especially against persons belonging to ethnic minorities.
The death in custody in 2016 of a young black man, Adama Traoré, in Beaumont-sur-Oise in the Paris suburbs, and the slowness of the reaction of the authorities provoked accusations of police violence and camouflage of the state. An investigation is underway.
In 2005, weeks of rioting erupted after two teenagers were electrocuted while they were hiding in an electrical substation in Clichy-sous-Bois north of Paris while in Paris. they were pursued by the police. The death of children has unleashed the worst riots in France for 40 years. After a decade of legal battles by the families, the police were tried and bleached for not helping the boys, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré.
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