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France braced for protests as Macron slams ‘inexcusable’ police shooting of teen driver

Firefighters work to put out a burning car on the sidelines of a demonstration in Nanterre, west of Paris, on June 27, 2023, after French police killed a teenager who refused to stop for a traffic check in the city. © Zakaria Abdelkafi, AFP

France braced for more angry protests on Wednesday evening after the killing of a teenager by police in a western Paris suburb during a traffic stop that President Emmanuel Macron called "inexcusable". 

The government said it would deploy 2,000 riot police to deal with any unrest, a day after a 17-year-old was shot in the chest by a police officer who then appeared to lie about the circumstances of the killing.

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