2023-07-01 09:28:05
A young man died Friday afternoon after falling from the roof of a store in Petit-Quevilly (Seine-Maritime), near Rouen. This fall comes on the sidelines of riots following the death of Nahel, we learned from concordant sources. The link between the victim and the violence that took place in this town on the outskirts of Rouen was not established on Friday evening.
The Rouen prosecutor Frédéric Teillet indicated Friday at the end of the day that this store was not “the object of an attack by rioters during these events”. A police source, who initially affirmed, as well as the prefecture, that this fall had occurred “in the context of looting”, judged “difficult to make a link between looting and these young people”. “Investigation is ongoing to refute or confirm this,” she continued.
Around 5 a.m. on the night of Thursday to Friday, the victim, in his twenties, climbed with another youngster on the roof of a shopping center, with several closed stores including a former Lidl, according to the prosecutor . He fell through the roof and was initially seriously injured, according to a statement in the morning from the prefecture.
The young man succumbed to his injuries on Friday afternoon, according to Frédéric Teillet. “The second young man, who was arrested, explains that both went up on the roof around 5 a.m. to try to enter the store in order to recover an object, on which it remains unclear, that they would have left inside,” he added.
During the night from Thursday to Friday, in Petit-Quevilly, around thirty individuals threw projectiles at the police, setting fire to garbage cans and degrading bus shelters, a police source had indicated in the morning.
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The Robert-Desnos kindergarten was closed on Friday after a fire damaged several classrooms. The municipality said in a statement on Facebook that a psychological cell had been opened “for children and families affected by the events”. “Following the death of young Nahel, emotion legitimately spread to our country. Violence has unfortunately taken precedence over citizen mobilization. Like other cities, Petit-Quevilly has been the scene of violence and degradation, ”adds the town hall.
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