At least 150 arrested in France in violent protests by police shooting of a 17-year-old

At least 150 people have been arrested across France in a second night of violence protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old named as Nahel M by police earlier this week, after refusing to stop. 

 

In Nanterre, where Nahel was shot, vehicles were set on fire and police fired tear gas, while in the Mons-en-Barœul suburb of Lille, people broke into the town hall and started fires, BBC reported. 

 

The French interior minister calls it “a night of unbearable violence against symbols of the republic”. 

 

French President Emmanuel Macron had called the violence “unjustifiable”. 

 

Nahel came from a French-Algerian family, a neighbour told Reuters news agency. Their tally found that most of those killed by police in traffic stops since 2017 were black or Arab.