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EVERYTHING YOU TO KNOW ABOUT #FranceRiots: Just 9% Of Population Has Taken Over The Cities In France For The Four Consecutive Nights!

The encounter of a 17-year-old boy in France has triggered the netizens who went on putting down the cities in blazes in four consecutive nights of riots. Deets Inside that everything you need to know about #FranceRiots.

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A 17-year-old boy Nahel was shot dead by a police officer on a Tuesday morning during a traffic stop in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, France. The incident has revived longstanding grievances about policing and racial profiling in France's low-income and multi-ethnic suburbs. This incident had caught on camera that triggered the people of the country which led to bursting in riots.

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Meanwhile, the officer who lift the gun reportedly shot in fear of the boy would run someone over with the car. The officer has been investigated for voluntary homicide and placed in preliminary detention. But this encounter has left France in huge trouble, the protesters in anger of racial bias in the country are brutally rioting by putting down the cities and this is being done by just 9% of the population. About 2,500 fires were set and stores were ransacked, according to authorities.

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This turned French officials to launch a crackdown and over 45,000 police officers were appointed for patrolling across the country. Just in the city of Paris, 5,000 security personnel were deployed and as per the reports, since Tuesday more than 2,000 people have been detained and more than 500 police officers and gendarmes have been injured. 

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Despite such huge official deployment, the riots continued even for the fourth night of protest and over 1,300 people have been arrested who set the buildings ablaze and looting stores. While even after an appeal made by the country’s President Emmanuel Macron to parents to not let their children out of their homes but street clashes between young protesters and police raged on.

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Check out the tweets of what all is happening in the country like France below.

 

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Who was Nahel?

Nahel was an only child to her mother Mounia who says, her son was killed because he had an Arab face and told the media, “The officer saw an Arab face, a little kid, and wanted to take his life."

The boy was a part of the Pirates of Nanterre rugby club for the past three years and he use to work as a takeaway delivery driver.

Who was Nahel M who was killed in police firing in France?

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