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From Macron to Mbappe, France outraged by latest police killing

Cars and buildings were set on fire during protests after the killing of a 17-year-old boy by a police officer [Alain Jocard/AFP]

President Emmanuel Macron has said the fatal shooting of a teenage boy by officers, the latest police killing to shock France and stir protests, was “inexplicable”, as public anger mounts.

The 17-year-old, known as Nahel M, was reportedly driving a rental car in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre early on Tuesday when police pulled him over for breaking several road rules, prosecutors said.

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