2023-06-29 23:22:47
He police who killed a teenager on Tuesday during a traffic checkpoint in a Paris suburb, unleashing riots in Franceasked for “pardon” from the victim’s family, his lawyer reported this Thursday.
“The first words he uttered were to apologize and the last words he uttered were to apologize to the family” of the victim, Laurent-Franck Liénard declared on the chain BFM TV.
“My client is extremely shocked by the violence of this video (…), which he saw for the first time while he was in police custody,” the lawyer described, referring to the recording that shows the officer shooting the 17-year-old.
“He is devastated, he does not get up in the morning to kill people. He did not want to kill,” he added.
Preventive prison
The justice decreed this Thursday preventive detention for voluntary manslaughter for the 38-year-old policeman.
The lawyer announced that he will appeal his client’s entry into preventive detention on Friday.
The death of Nahel in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre unleashed riots in several cities of France and reopened the debate on police violence.
Authorities on Thursday ordered the deployment of 40,000 officers in anticipation of a third night of unrest.
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