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Added on the 29/06/2023 00:55:46 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Fireworks are thrown in Nanterre, a Paris suburb where a 17-year-old was shot in the chest at point-blank range by police. About 2,000 police in riot gear have been deployed to prevent clashes in the Paris suburbs as anger simmers over the deadly shooting. IMAGES
Violence breaks out in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where several thousand people were marching in tribute to 17-year-old Nahel who was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop on Tuesday. Scuffles broke out, with fireworks being fired, to which the police responded with tear gas. Several fires were lit in the vicinity of the prefecture and cars were set alight. IMAGES
French Interior minister visits the wreckage of a circus school which was burnt down at the weekend after an outburst of violence in a poor suburb northwest of Paris. IMAGES
Paris police are searching for four occupants of a car that struck a taxi and tried to ram into barricades near the Tour de France finish line Sunday morning.
Police are on the scene near the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand train station in Paris after French police shot and wounded a woman who was making threats, a police source told AFP. According to witnesses the woman, who was completely veiled, shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is Greatest") and "made threats", the source said, adding that "police fired because they feared for their safety". After passengers on a suburban train alerted police, agents managed to "isolate" the woman at the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand station on the capital's south bank, the source said. IMAGES