This blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. These were the updates for the France police shooting on Thursday, June 29.
This blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. These were the updates for the France police shooting on Thursday, June 29.
- The local authority for the French town of Clamart, just to the south of Paris in the Ile-de-France region, has said it will impose a curfew from tonight to July 3.
- The police officer who allegedly killed a 17-year-old at a traffic stop in France has been given a preliminary charge of “voluntary homicide”, prosecutors say.
- Police have thrown tear gas at marchers protesting the death of Nahel M, a 17-year-old of North African descent who was killed by the officer on Tuesday.
- Mounia, the mother of the teenager, is leading the tribute march of thousands in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where he was killed.
- Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says 40,000 police officers will be deployed across France on Thursday night, including 5,000 in Paris, after two nights of violent riots.