More than 800 people have been arrested in France after a third night of violent unrest over a 17-year-old boy who was killed by police.
, a killing that sent a shockwave of anger across the country and inflamed long-standing tensions over the treatment of its ethnic minorities.
The incident in the northwestern Paris suburb of Nanterre suburb has fueled anger about discrimination against ethnic minorities in the country.The victim's mother, identified as Mounia M., told France 5 television that she was angry at the accused officer, rather than at police in general. “They kill us, they stop and search abusively, they abuse their authority — it needs to stop,” said Anais, 27, who didn’t want to give her last name. The “problem here is becoming like the United States,” she said, though adding that “there are some good police officers."
Authorities have deployed 40,000 police to the streets and detained more than 875 people, with around 200 officers injured, officials said. No information was available about any others injured. Meanwhile, lawyers for the officer accused of pulling the trigger, who is kept anonymous by French law, said his client was sorry and “devastated.” Attorney Laurent-Franck Lienard told France’s BFM TV, “He doesn’t get up in the morning to kill people. He really didn’t want to kill.”
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