France re-enacts fatal shooting of teenager that led to riots

Mounia (L), the mother of Nahel M, a 17-year-old teenage driver who was shot dead by a policeman in June, and an unidentified friend of Nahel's (C) hold a demonstration after the release of the police officer who killed her son, in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, on 19 November, 2023. AFP - MIGUEL MEDINA

The lawyer representing the family of a 17-year-old who was shot by police in a Paris suburb in June 2023 says the officer responsible for his death was not in danger, following a reconstruction of the events that sparked a week of riots across France.

Speaking on RTL radio this Monday, lawyer Nabil Boudi said that the police officer who shot Nahel M. in Nanterre on 27 June 2023 was not in mortal danger.