A rap scene united in indignation: several personalities, including the Marseillais Jul and SCH, reacted to the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by police shooting on Tuesday in the Paris suburbs. “A thought for Naël (sic)
The other Marseille rap star, SCH, also expressed himself on Twitter, saying he brought “all (s) support” to those close to Nahel as well as to “our neighborhoods”. “I see mind-blowing tweets, it makes you wonder if there is still a bit of humanity left in some people. You can find all the excuses on earth to justify the act, it will not bring this poor 17-year-old kid back to his parents,” he wrote.
“A lack of a license or a refusal to comply (sic) must not allow a policeman out of danger to commit murder on the public highway. It would have been Pierre Palmade or Nadine’s son at the wheel, high on coke and I don’t know what else, I doubt very much that they would have been executed in this way, “wrote Rohff, holding rap at the old one. Other personalities from this scene, including Hamza or SDM, also reacted on social networks.
On Wednesday morning, the captain of the French football team Kylian Mbappé expressed his anger, calling the incident “unacceptable”. “I hurt my France,” he wrote again. “My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and loved ones of Naël (sic), who died at the age of 17 this morning, killed by a policeman in Nanterre. May justice worthy of the name honor the memory of this child”, also reacted the interpreter of the series “Lupin”, Omar Sy.
Nahel M., 17, was killed Tuesday morning, hit by a bullet in the chest. The tragedy, which reignited the controversy over the response of the police to refusals to comply, occurred near the Nanterre Prefecture RER station.
A video circulating on social networks, authenticated by AFP, showed that one of the two police officers held the driver at gunpoint, before shooting at close range when the car restarted. The vehicle ended its race a few tens of meters further, embedded in a pole.
