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“If the images are confirmed, at no time is a gesture like the one we saw justified,” said the Minister of the Interior.
“We want to have the whole truth about what happened”assured Gérald Darmanin during a press briefing, Wednesday June 28, the day after the death of a 17-year-old boy, killed by a police officer after refusing to comply in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). The video filmed by a witness of the scene is “extremely shocking” And “apparently not in line with what we want in the police”said the Minister of the Interior.
“When a young man dies under conditions like these, the emotion is normal”, he estimated. “If the pictures are confirmed, at no time is a gesture like the one we have seen justified”added Gérald Darmanin, calling however for the “respect for the presumption of innocence” of the policeman placed in police custody as part of an investigation by the IGPN.
The Minister of the Interior also “called for calm” after the clashes in Nanterre and other municipalities in France, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. Some 31 people were arrested in France, and 24 members of the police were slightly injured in Ile-de-France, he said. About 40 cars were also burned.