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'I hurt for my France': Footballers speak out after deadly police shooting of teenager

Paris Saint-Germain's Kylian Mbappé and other French footballers spoke out after the deadly police shooting of a teenager. © Alain Jocard, AFP

Kylian Mbappé and other prominent French soccer players have expressed their indignation after the death of a 17-year-old delivery driver shot and killed during a police check in a Paris suburb.

“I hurt for my France," Mbappé, who grew up in the Paris suburb of Bondy, wrote Wednesday in a Twitter message accompanied by broken hearts emoticons. "Unacceptable situation. All my thoughts go to the family and loved ones of Naël, this little angel gone much too soon.” 

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