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The teenager, of Algerian descent, was killed by a single shot during a traffic stop in the Paris working-class Paris of Nanterre on Tuesday morning. The police officer who fired said he had feared someone may be hit by the car, including him or his colleague, after Nahel ran a…

NANTERRE, France (AP) — Hushed and visibly anguished, hundreds of mourners from France’s Islamic community formed a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery on Saturday to bury a 17-year-old whose killing by police has triggered days of rioting and looting across the nation. Underscoring the gravity of…

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Ahead of PM Narendra Modi ’s summit with President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, where he will also be the guest of honour at the iconic Bastille Day parade on July 14, French Ambassador Emmanuel Lenain said Friday that Modi’s visit is likely to see substantive outcomes in areas like defence,…

Violence continued in France overnight from Thursday to Friday after a police officer shot dead a 17-year-old teen on Tuesday in Nanterre, western Paris suburbs, with 667 arrests across the country, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced on Friday.    “Last night, our police officers, gendarmes and firefighters bravely faced…

Published: 1:22pm, 30 Jun, 2023 Updated: 1:24pm, 30 Jun, 2023 Read More

The police officer who shot and killed a teenager during a traffic stop in Paris has asked the family of the boy for forgiveness. His lawyer Laurent-Franck Lienard told BFMTV: "The first words he pronounced were to say sorry and the last words he said were to say sorry to…

Mounia, the mother of Nahel, a teenage driver shot dead by a policeman, waves a light flare as she stands atop a truck during a commemoration march for her son, in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, on June 29, 2023. — AFP pic Follow us on Instagram, subscribe to our…

The long wait is over; the riders are gathering in Bilbao and the 110th edition of the Tour de France is almost upon us. Two stages in the Basque Country are followed by an undulating coastal schlep over the French border to Bayonne for the first of what could be…

France's president has called Tuesday's fatal shooting of a teen by police "unforgivable", saying "nothing justifies" a young person's death. Emmanuel Macron's comments come after protests over the killing gripped the Paris region overnight. Nahel, aged 17, was shot in his car after failing to stop when ordered to. Video…