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In the Nahel case, this 17-year-old young man killed by a police officer last week in Nanterre, “we went from a presumption of innocence which was completely trampled on” to “a presumption of racism”, believes this Friday Laurent Nuñez, prefect of police of Paris.
“The police, they only discriminate against one thing, it is the delinquents”assures Laurent Nuñez, prefect of police of Paris, Friday July 7 on franceinfo. “Generally speaking, it is completely false to say that there is a form of systemic racism in the police”, he also says. If he “do not deny that there are not some minority cases of racism in the police”these latter “are systematically detected and sanctioned either administratively or judicially”.
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The former Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior evokes the case of Nahel, killed by a police officer after a refusal to comply, on June 27 in Nanterre, in the Hauts-de-Seine: “To suggest that this tragedy occurred because the police officer would have behaved racist, it is still very serious”, he is indignant. Worse, “It’s throwing oil on the fire”.
“It obviously does not correspond to reality”he adds, before recovering himself: “There is a judicial inquiry, we will see”. At any rate, “in this case, we have gone from a presumption of innocence which has been completely trampled on” To “a presumption of racism”he says.