“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 teenager, killed by a police officer after a refusal 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. “If the pictures are confirmed, at no time is a gesture like the one we have seen justified”he added, calling however on the “respect for the presumption of innocence” of the police officer taken into custody on Tuesday. Follow our live.
Clashes in Nanterre. Incidents broke out in the city where Naël M. lived, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. The police made 31 arrests after these tensions, said Gérald Darmanin. He added that 24 police officers and gendarmes were injured in these clashes.
Incidents in Ile-de-France. According to the police headquarters, “very sporadic incidents” took place in Asnières, Colombes, Suresnes, Clichy-sous-Bois and Mantes-la-Jolie. In the latter town, the annex town hall of the Val Fourré district was burned down, learned franceinfo from a police source.
A police officer taken into custody. The official suspected of having killed the young man was placed in police custody for “intentional homicide”, as part of an investigation entrusted to the general inspectorate of the police (IGPN). A second investigation was also opened, for “refusal to comply” and “attempted intentional homicide on a person holding public authority”.