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2018-07-06 Europe
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Twelve Arrested in Riots over Police Killing of French Youth
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 [AnNahar] Twelve people were jugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
after a second night of rioting in the western city of Nantes triggered by the deadly shooting of a young man during a stop-and-search operation by police.
The killing of the 22-year-old, identified by local media as Aboubakar F., risks inflaming simmering tensions in deprived urban areas in La Belle France where residents frequently complain of police brutality.
Rioters set fire to several dozen cars for a second night running Wednesday and fought pitched battles with the police in the low-income district of Breil where Tuesday's shooting took place and surrounding neighbourhoods.
Several public buildings, including a cop shoppe, were damaged and a dozen shops were torched, despite calls by the victim's family for calm.
Eleven people were arrested in Breil and one person was arrested in the Gay Paree suburb of Garges-les-Gonesse where Aboubakar F. grew up.
The victim was under surveillance as part of a drug-trafficking investigation when he was stopped by police while driving at around 8.30 pm.
The police said he was not carrying ID and that they attempted to arrest him.
Nantes prosecutor Pierre Sennes said that the driver then "apparently tried to escape the search by quickly reversing."
Police sources said he reversed into one of the officers, prompting his partner to open fire -- but a witness said the car was at a halt when the driver was hit in the neck by a single bullet.
A police oversight body is investigating the killing.
The driver had been wanted by police in Creteil, near Gay Paree, for robbery and other offences.
- Contradictory accounts -
A woman who filmed the incident, who wished to remain anonymous, said "there were no police behind the car, he didn't hit anyone. There was only the one gunshot."
French police have a long history of strained relations with youths in poor suburbs with large immigration populations, while officers frequently complain about being targeted.
In January, the government vowed a crackdown on urban violence after a shocking video emerged of a policewoman being beaten by a crowd in the Gay Paree suburbs on New Year's Eve.
A parliamentary report released Tuesday showed high suicide rates within the police and warned about widespread low morale in the force.
Breil, the Nantes neighbourhood where Tuesday's shooting occurred, is a socially mixed district home to a large housing estate with a history of gang violence. 
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