The various left mayor of the city proposed to build a commemorative plaque two years after the death of Nahel Merzouk, killed during a road check by the shooting of a police officer who will be tried for murder.
“Inappropriate and shocking”. The opposition to the town hall of Nanterre was very critical of the proposal of the various left mayor Raphaël Adam to build a commemorative plaque in tribute to Nahel, a young man of 17 years killed in June 2023 during a road control by the shooting of a police officer who will be tried for murder.
During a rally two years later, on June 27, on the scene of the accident, before a sparse assembly which claimed the affixing of a commemorative plaque, Raphaël Adam had seemed to provide support to the request. “A plaque and justice for Nahel, that’s what awaits us”, he said he spoke more. This was enough to trigger the ire of its opponents within this municipality of Western Paris.
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“First of all, it should be remembered that justice works, that it has not shed light on what really happened, or even made its verdict”hammers the elected officials of the Nanterre group together in a press release. “It should then be remembered that the two police officers had been in the pursuit of this 17 -year -old young man, known to the police services, who was driving without a superpowers in a overpowered car, at a speed of a speed, sometimes sometimes, sometimes sometimes around 150 km/h, and who refused to comply twice before being challenged”recalls the elected officials who protest against the will to “Return an official tribute to a person who has violated the law on multiple times”.
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“We do not want a city that values acts of delinquency. We want a city which values the work of justice and which lets it exercise in good conditions ”they still add in this press release. “Installing the pain of loved ones for electoral aims, a few months before the municipal elections, is a drift that we categorically refuse”denounces Faysal Meneceur, president of the group Like Nanterre, another opposition group of the city, seeing in the proposal of the mayor on the left a “Precipitated politicization”.
With Parisianthe town hall of Nanterre defended the project, specifying that it was in line with the realization of “two frescoes in memory of Nahel, in the districts of Old Pont and the South Park”. But the town hall that it will await the outcome of the trial before validating the installation of a commemorative plaque, without saying more. “At the end of this trial and the verdict that will be returned, the time will have come to serenely consider the inscription of this drama in public space”said the town hall.
The death of Nahel had led to several nights of particularly violent riots in the suburbs. If the qualification of voluntary homicide was retained for the coming trial, the defense refutes it and evokes for its part a shot “legitimate”considering that the police officer, former soldier, has “Save lives” In view of Nahel’s conduct, “Launched at more than 116 km/h” in the streets of Nanterre and who had just brushed against a cyclist.
