Paris riots: What we know about teen's shooting by police

Prosecutors person begun piecing unneurotic what happened earlier the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M by a constabulary officer.

The serviceman has been charged with homicide and remains successful custody.

In their outline of events aft questioning eyewitnesses and reviewing CCTV footage, prosecutors accidental the teenage operator had already ignored a constabulary request to stop, erstwhile officers caught up with the car and drew their weapons.

Meanwhile an relationship has been posted online by 1 of the passengers, which French media accidental they person verified but the BBC has not.

In this relationship the passenger, besides a teenager, says the officers deed Nahel M with the butts of their guns 3 times, causing him to instrumentality his ft disconnected the brake of the car.

Prosecutors are owed to speech to this witnesser connected Monday

Around 08:00 connected Tuesday, 2 policemen connected motorcycles spotted a Mercedes with a Polish fig sheet driving accelerated successful a autobus lane, Nanterre authoritative Pascal Prache told journalists.

Turning connected their siren, the officers caught up with the car astatine a postulation light. Three young men were inside.

The officers told the operator to halt but the conveyance pulled away, ignoring the reddish light. The officers gave pursuit and notified their portion by radio.

At 08:16, the Mercedes stopped successful dense traffic. Both officers got disconnected their motorcycles, drew their weapons and approached the car.

They aboriginal told prosecutors that they pointed their guns astatine the operator to "deter him from driving distant again".

They asked the operator to crook disconnected the ignition, but the car moved forward. One of the officers fired, fatally wounding the young antheral successful the chest.

After the car ran into a roadside barrier, 1 the passengers was arrested and portion different fled connected foot.

The rider says the 3 friends were driving astir Nanterre erstwhile the car strayed into the autobus lane and was chased by 2 policemen connected motorcycles.

After Nahel stopped the car, the young antheral says successful his video and successful an interrogation with Le Parisien newspaper, 1 of the officers deed the teenage operator with the butt of his gun.

He alleges that the 2nd policeman besides struck Nahel earlier the archetypal serviceman again deed him.

He told Le Parisien that the blows near Nahel M "a small stunned".

The 3rd blow, according to this account, caused Nahel to instrumentality his ft disconnected the brake and the conveyance to determination forward. After the serviceman fired, Nahel M slumped guardant and his ft pressed connected the accelerator, the rider said.

When the car came a standstill, the rider said, helium decided to fly due to the fact that helium was acrophobic helium would beryllium changeable too.

Questions person been asked astir the car, a Mercedes A people AMG. Officials picture it arsenic a rented vehicle.

The rider who fled said that idiosyncratic had lent it to the 3 youths, without giving immoderate details.

According to the French motoring website Autoplus, German sportscars with Polish fig plates tin beryllium hired for €300-3,000 (£260-2,600) a day.

This benignant of abbreviated rental is fashionable with young men successful French lodging estates, Autoplus says.

Nahel M did not person a transgression grounds but was known to police.

He had antecedently been cited for driving without a licence - helium was excessively young to person 1 - and for refusing to comply with an bid to stop.

He was owed to look earlier a juvenile tribunal successful September.