After the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old motorist killed by a police officer in Nanterre, in the Hauts-de-Seine, emotion is strong on social networks.
[Updated June 28, 2023 at 1:42 p.m.] In the aftermath of the tragedy, emotion is strong and anger is rising. Since the revelation of the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old young man shot dead by a police officer after refusing to comply on Tuesday in Nanterre, thousands of comments have been pouring in on social networks. Among a crowd of anonymous people, several public figures like Kylian Mbappé or Omar Sy, but also from the world of music, are moved. In this case, an amateur video posted on Twitter seems to contradict the initial version of the police and question self-defense, adding indignation to the general emotion.
In the caption of a photo of the teenager, the rapper Médine, known for his commitments and his conflicts with the French far right, shares the famous
In another message, he calls to action with another French rapper, SCH. “I see mind-blowing tweets, it makes you wonder if there’s still a bit of humanity left in some people. You can find all the excuses on earth to justify the act, it won’t bring this poor 17-year-old kid back. years to his parents. All my support to his loved ones and all my support to our neighborhoods, “he wrote.
Another rapper to have spoken on social networks, Hamza, who sends all his “condolences to the family of little Nahel”. “My thoughts are with the mom who lost her only son… Sadly, I feel like it’s always the same story! Tired of seeing our little brothers
Mehdi Maïzi, the best known of French rap journalists, also wanted to comment on this case on Twitter: “All the people here who find extenuating circumstances in the police officers guilty of the death of Nahel: stop following me, you are not not welcome here; stop listening to rap, you’re not welcome here; incidentally, shut up”, accompanied by a “REP (Rest in peace editor’s note.) Nahel.”
In a long message posted on Twitter, another rapper, Rohff, also expressed his support for the “parents of the young deceased driver.” He writes: “A lack of a permit or a refusal to comply should not allow a police officer out of danger to commit murder on the public highway. It would have been Pierre Palmade or the son of Nadine [Morano, whose son to be judged in September after a car accident under the influence of cocaine editor’s note. so.”
In addition to its rappers, it is all of France which expresses its emotion after the death of young Nahel. DJ Snake, another figure in French music, also wrote on Twitter: “A mother is going to bury her son for a lack of license. History repeats itself, again and again, when will it stop?! Thoughts for Nahel and his family. I don’t have the words…”
