Rioting has raged in cities around France for a fourth night despite massive police deployment as family and friends prepared on Saturday to bury the 17-year-old whose killing by police unleashed the unrest. 9News
Firefighters work to extinguish a burning container as unrest continues following the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a French police officer in Nanterre during a traffic stop.
France's national soccer team – including international star Kylian Mbappe, an idol to many young people in the disadvantaged neighbourhoods where the anger is rooted – pleaded for an end to the violence."Many of us are from working-class neighbourhoods, we too share this feeling of pain and sadness" over the killing of 17-year-old Nahel, the players said in a statement.They said it's time for "mourning, dialogue and reconstruction" instead.
who appealed to parents to keep children off the streets and blamed social media for fuelling violenceFamily and friends were holding a funeral gathering on Saturday for Nahel in his hometown of Nanterre. Anger erupted in the Paris suburb after his death there Tuesday and quickly spread nationwide. The fatal shooting of Nahel, whose last name has not been made public, stirred up long-simmering tensions between police and young people in housing projects who struggle with poverty, unemployment and racial discrimination.
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