VERSAILLES, France: A French policeman who sparked riots last week after killing a teenager has denied threatening to shoot the boy in the head before opening fire, legal documents seen by AFP s
last week after killing a teenager has denied threatening to shoot the boy in the head before opening fire, legal documents seen by AFP showed on Thursday .
Investigators believe they were uttered by a second officer at the scene, with digital checks on the video ongoing. Nahel's family have filed a criminal complaint for"fraud by a group, misuse of personal data and conspiracy in these crimes against Jean Messiha and everyone ... taking part in these offences," said Yassine Bouzrou, a lawyer for Nahel's mother.to the riots in the country's deprived, multi-ethnic suburbs once events have been properly analysed.
The IGPN and its equivalent for the gendarmerie are investigating 10 alleged incidents of improper behaviour by officers during the violence which saw 45,000 officers deployed each night to restore order, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.One relates to a man struck in the head by a less-lethal"beanbag" munition believed to have been fired by police in eastern France as he drove to a petrol station on Jun 30. He is now in a coma.
But after days largely below the radar, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally and Macron's two-time challenger for the presidency, told broadcaster France 2 that"poverty is not at the origin of these riots".
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