Police made a grim threat before executing the 17-year-old whose death has sparked uproar across France this week.
Another young man accompanying Nahel Merzouk, who is of Algerian and Moroccan descent, has come out to say that he wants to set the story straight because "there are a lot of lies on social media".
The passenger has insisted that neither boy was "under the influence", but they'd borrowed the vehicle - which had Polish plates - and that they were simply driving around the suburb of Nanterre when cops on motorbikes pulled them over.
