Protests Flare Near Paris After 17-Year-Old Shot Dead

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French authorities detained one officer on suspicion of “culpable homicide,” following the incident at around 8:18 a.m. local time on Tuesday in Nanterre, the local prosecutor’s office said. Three people were in the car, a Mercedes AMG, at the time of the incident, it said.

French President Emmanuel Macron described as “unjustifiable” the fatal shooting of the youth, identified as lawyers representing his family as “Naël M.”

Speaking to journalists in Marseille, Macron said: “Nothing, nothing justifies the death of a young man.”

“I would like to express the emotion of the entire nation at the death of young Naël, and give his family of our solidarity and the affection of the nation.

“We need calm for justice to carry out its work. And we need calm everywhere because the situation we can’t allow the situation to worsen,” Macron added.

The death of the 17-year-old was pronounced at 9:15 a.m. local time “following at least one gunshot wound” and despite the intervention of emergency medics, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said.

A passenger in the vehicle was taken into custody and later released, while another passenger, who is believed to have fled the scene, is missing, the statement said.

An autopsy and additional examinations, including a toxicology report, have been ordered by the prosecutor’s office.

CNN