“I don’t blame the police, I blame a person”, assures his mother

2023-06-30 09:38:00

Thursday, June 29, in the evening, Nahel’s mother spoke. She calls on justice to pronounce a “firm” sentence against the police officer prosecuted.

By Benoît Leroy for Le Point Mounia M. says that this tragedy is not the fruit of a “system”, but of “a single man”. © VIRGINIE SEILLER / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP Published on 06/30/2023 at 09:38

The emotion of a mother. Thursday, June 29, Mounia M. – Nahel’s mother – spoke in length on the show It’s up to you, on France 5. Tuesday morning, his son was shot dead during a police check. Thursday, she assures not to ” blame the police “. “I blame a person, [celle] who took my son’s life. He didn’t have to kill my son, ”she judges. And this, a few hours after the indictment of the police officer who fired the shot and his placement in pre-trial detention and the white march in tribute to his child.

“There were other ways [de l’arrêter]. He didn’t have to kill my son. A bullet, a bullet… So close to his chest. No, no, I can’t imagine that. I can’t. Knock it out, take it out… There’s no problem. There were other ways to get him out,” says 17-year-old Nahel’s mother. Among our colleagues, she believes that this drama is not the fruit “of a system, but of a man”.

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“He saw the head of a little Arab”

Mounia M. also returned to the first hours following the death of her son and how she learned the news. “I am not allowed to see my son. I arrive, I ask if he is dead. A policewoman tells me (yes). I fall, I scream… But she does not specify that it was they who killed my son. These are young people who came to see me and who were present [au moment du drame] “says Mounia. “He saw the face of a little Arab, of a little kid. He wanted to take her life,” she thinks.

“Killing babies like that, how long will it last?” How many more children will leave? How many mothers are going to be like me? “She asks on France 5. And this one to specify to have” police friends “. “They are wholeheartedly with me. They don’t agree with what he did,” she said.

On the judicial side, Mounia M. asks that justice “be really firm”. “Let him pay for my son’s pain. The pain that I have. He killed my son, he killed me, ”she says.