Florian M., a traffic control officer, was released on bail ahead of a trial expected to take place in 2024 after he shot dead Nahel Merzouk, 17, in the suburb of Nanterre on June 27
For the past week, France has been in an uproar in response to the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old Black boy, according to the France24 News. The public’s response to what they claim was a racially biased act of police brutality has stirred up tensions similar to that in the US when the video of George Floyd’s murder went viral.