France is celebrating its national holiday Friday with whizzing warplanes and a grand Bastille Day parade in Paris and with more than 100,000 police deployed around the country to prevent a new outbreak of unrest in underprivileged neighborhoods
The killing of 17 year old Nahel Merzouk, a teenager with Algerian and Moroccan parents, by a police officer in the Paris suburb of Nanterre has triggered riots across France and caused intense debate regarding racism in French policing. On June 27th 2023, Nahel was fatally shot at point-blank by a police officer for driving off during a traffic stop. The police officer has been charged with voluntary homicide. The killing was captured on video, and has sparked protests across the country,