French police kill teen who refused traffic stop

French constabulary person changeable dormant a 17-year-old who failed to halt erstwhile ordered to by postulation constabulary extracurricular Paris connected Tuesday.

Video circulating connected societal media shows a constabulary serviceman pointing a weapon astatine the operator of a car, earlier a gunshot is heard. The car crashes to a stop.

Emergency services attempted to resuscitate the teen astatine the scene, but helium died soon afterwards.

The serviceman accused of firing the changeable has been detained connected homicide charges.

The footage, verified by AFP quality agency, shows 2 constabulary officers trying to halt the vehicle. One points his limb astatine the operator done the model and appears to occurrence astatine point-blank scope arsenic helium tries to thrust off.

Two others were successful the car astatine the clip of the shooting. One rider fled portion different was arrested and taken into custody.

Paris constabulary main Laurent Nuñez told French tv presumption BFMTV that the policeman's actions "raises questions", though helium suggested the serviceman whitethorn person felt threatened.

The 17-year-old's household lawyer Yassine Bouzrou insisted was an illegitimate defence, telling the aforesaid transmission the video "clearly showed a policeman sidesplitting a young antheral successful acold blood".

He added that the household had filed a ailment against constabulary for "lying" - aft initially claiming the car had tried to tally down the officers.

The shooting triggered a bid of protests connected Tuesday nighttime successful Nanterre, the country wherever the teen was killed.

Cars, rubbish bins and woody pallets were acceptable alight, and fireworks acceptable off. Seven radical were arrested aft confronting riot constabulary astatine the scene, authorities said.

Another lawyer representing the victim's family, Jennifer Cambla, told section media that thing could warrant what had happened, and described the decease arsenic an "execution".

France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told parliament connected Tuesday the 2 officers progressive successful the incidental were being questioned by the police. He said the video shared connected societal media was "extremely shocking".

Left-wing person Jean-Luc Mélenchon expressed his "heartfelt condolences" to the household of the teen. "No serviceman has the close to termination unless successful self-defence," helium wrote successful a tweet.

"This uncontrolled constabulary unit discredits the authorization of the state. It needs to beryllium wholly overhauled," helium added.

Two weeks ago, a 19-year-old was changeable dormant by constabulary successful the occidental France municipality of Angouleme.