The riots have spread from France to Belgium.
The police have announced that more than 100 rioters were arrested after unrest in Brussels and Liege yesterday.
Following the death of young Nahel, 17, in Nanterre, many public figures take the floor. Among them, Mathieu Kassovitz posted a video on social networks in which he does not hide his emotion. But above all, the director of the film “La Haine” appears in tears. He declares: “Hello, sad day that this one with the death of Nahel yesterday, killed by a gendarme, we see in the videos, I speak to you here because I start to receive requests for interviews, and I feel that if I put my hand in it…”
As a reminder, the drama took place Tuesday morning, around 8:30 a.m., in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). Police officers asked the driver of a yellow Mercedes who had committed several traffic offenses to stop for a check. The young man first stopped his vehicle, was then pointed at by a policeman who was standing on the side of the vehicle, before restarting. At that precise moment, the officer shot the driver once at point-blank range, and the car ended up a few meters away, embedded in a pole.
Before continuing with emotion: “Apparently there are some who still have not understood that they are young people in front, they are sons, they are not thugs, criminals, they have no armed”. “The police are still untrained, they’re freaking out, all that kind of stuff, why the police blunders happened, they’re not angels either, obviously, but the problem is that “We will never resolve these issues until we condemn the police,” continued Mathieu Kassovitz. The director also takes the opportunity to call on politicians to take their responsibilities.
The young Nahel died shortly after being hit, despite the intervention of the Samu who gave him cardiac massage on the spot. “His death was pronounced at 9:15 a.m. following at least one gunshot wound,” said the prosecution. Subsequently, the police claimed that the victim had “ran into an officer”, but this version was denied by a video filmed by a witness, which seems to show no real danger for the policeman who was aiming at the driver.
Police in the Belgian capital, Brussels, have arrested some 100 people in the wake of Morocco’s defeat against France at the World Cup semi-finals.
Among the detained soccer fans on Wednesday night were people accused of disturbing the public order, damaging two police vehicles and possessing illegal pyrotechnics, Belgian police said in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Several people were also arrested in Antwerp, local news agency Belga reported. Authorities had feared larger disruptions following riots in Belgium and the Netherlands after Morocco beat Belgium in the group stage of the tournament. Despite jubilant scenes across France, police had nevertheless mobilized around 10,000 officers to prevent any unrest during and after the match between Morocco and its former colonizer.
Officers dispersed a group of fans using fireworks near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and deployed tear gas against soccer fans who set off firecrackers in the southern city of Nice.
Police made around 170 arrests nationwide, including a group of around 40 people aligned with far-right groups who were caught carrying prohibited weapons. He added that investigations had been opened, and that “rioters will not go unpunished.”
Approximately 500 people gathered at the Brussels North police station on Wednesday afternoon to demand clarity about the death of Ibrahima Barrie, who died about an hour after being arrested last weekend.
At riots that broke out after the demonstration, protestors clashed with the police and started throwing stones at them. In Schaerbeek, the police station was even set on fire.
One demonstrator and five police officers were injured, according to the police.
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