Grandmother of French teen killed by police appeals for calm

The grandmother of the 17-year-old killed by a police officer in a suburb of Paris city appealed for peace on Sunday, CNN reported.

Her grandson, Nahel Merzouk, who was of Algerian and Moroccan descent, was shot at point-blank on Tuesday for driving off his car during a police traffic check.

“They should not damage the schools, not break the buses, it was the moms who take the buses,” his grandmother, Nadia, told CNN’s affiliate BFMTV.

Meanwhile, a clash broke out between the police and the rioters during the early hours of Sunday, reported the Associated Press.

The police use tear gas shells and stun grenades to pacify the protestors who set off firecrackers and lit barricades on fire in the Champs-Elysees avenue.

A car that was set on fire rammed the home of the l’Hay-les-Roses mayor, a suburb of Paris, Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun said his wife and one of his children were injured in the attack who were sleeping and he was in the town hall monitoring the violence, reported AP.

Jeanbrun said the attack was a new stage of “horror and ignominy” in the unrest, urging the government to impose a state of emergency.

President Emmanuel Macron will hold a special security meeting Sunday evening with his minister on the situation.

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