“I will fight, I will not give up for my son.” Mounia, Nahel’s mother, called for a rally on Sunday in Nanterre a few days after the release of the police officer responsible for the fatal shooting of her son during a road check on June 27.
“Sunday November 19, come and support us at 3 p.m. on Place Nelson-Mandela, in Nanterre. Thank you very much,” says the teenager’s mother in a video sent by the Justice for Nahel collective to several media, AFP report.
Nights of riots
The images of the biker shooting the teenager at point blank range, widely distributed on social networks, had raised a wave of anger and violence which ignited for several consecutive nights many towns in the Paris region and in the rest of the country, more serious since 2005.
The images also reignited the debate on police violence and the police officer responsible for the shooting was in pre-trial detention until Wednesday. The investigating judges feared in particular a consultation between the two police officers.
The “less significant” risk of consultation
But on Wednesday, they granted the request of Me Laurent-Franck Liénard, lawyer for Florian M.. The judges believe that there are still “discrepancies between the different versions given”, but that “the risk of consultation now appears, in this configuration, less significant” and “cannot justify the continuation of pre-trial detention on this basis”.
They also emphasize that “if the disturbance to public order remains”, “it is less than on the date of placement in pre-trial detention”. The 38-year-old police officer remains indicted for murder and is placed under judicial supervision. He must “pay a deposit” and is prohibited from coming into contact with witnesses and civil parties, “from appearing in Nanterre” and from “holding a weapon”, explained the Nanterre prosecutor’s office.
A “real injustice”
For Nahel’s mother, this is a “real injustice”. “How can my son’s life have such little value for this justice? », she asks herself in the video. “A police officer kills a child, Arab or black, becomes a millionaire and leaves prison, reunites with his family peacefully for the holidays,” she adds in reference to the jackpot which raised more than 1.6 million euros in support for the police officer’s family.
This jackpot launched by Jean Messiha, a figure of the extreme right, is the subject of a complaint from Nahel’s family for organized gang fraud, denouncing “fraudulent maneuvers” and “lies” by this former figure of the Front national aiming to “deceive” donors to raise funds.