2023-11-17 00:49:38
For her, it is an additional reason to continue the fight. Mounia, the mother of young Nahel denounces in an interview with Average a “real injustice” after the police officer responsible for the fatal shooting of his son was released under judicial supervision on Wednesday.
On June 27, the death of Nahel, 17, after a road check in Nanterre sparked a week of riots in France. After more than four months of pre-trial detention, Florian M., 38, indicted for murder, was released. Placed under judicial supervision, he must “pay a bond” and is prohibited from coming into contact with witnesses and civil parties, “from appearing in Nanterre” and from “holding a weapon”, detailed this same source.
“This is a real injustice. How can my son’s life have so little value? What message is sent? », asks Mounia. “A police officer kills a child, Arab or black, becomes a millionaire, leaves prison and quietly reunites with his family for the holidays. I will never find my son again, but I will fight and I will not give up for him,” she continues.
The young man’s mother calls for a gathering in tribute to her son, Sunday November 19, Place Nelson-Mandela in Nanterre. “Come in large numbers to support us,” she asks. The images of the biker shooting the teenager at point blank range, widely distributed on social networks, had raised a wave of anger and violence which ignited for several consecutive nights many towns in the Paris region and in the rest of the country, more serious since 2005.
Nahel’s death had also relaunched the debate in France on police violence. Another police officer, from the Marseille Bac, was placed in pre-trial detention on July 21 for having seriously injured Hedi, 22, in the head on the sidelines of the riots, provoking protests from members of the police across France. . The Marseille police officer was released on September 1 and placed under judicial supervision.
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