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Kim Willsher in Paris and Montreuil

France: teen shot by police given private funeral as crisis grips government

Floral tributes
A woman pays her respects at the site where Nahel Merzouk died, shortly after his funeral on Saturday. Photograph: Sam Tarling/Getty Images

The 17-year-old boy shot dead by a police officer was buried on Saturday as the French government braced for further protests after the worst violence for 18 years.

Friends and family attended a private funeral at Nanterre, where Nahel Merzouk was killed on Tuesday after being stopped by two motorcycle patrol police.

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