It is a man with drawn features, his voice tinged with emotion, who spoke. Hicham H., Nahel’s father, killed last week in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) by a policeman, announced on Wednesday that he was a civil party in the case.
“I am a civil party for justice to be done for Nahel and to say that I am alive”, explains this 42-year-old man, from Colombes, a neighboring town of Nanterre in the Hauts-de-Seine. “I’m having trouble recovering (…) I can’t sleep anymore,” he added in an interview with AFP. Hicham H. had no relationship with his son, who was 17 at the time of his death. “I made choices in my life that meant that I could not attend his birth, I did not see his first steps, his first words”, he explains modestly, before mentioning his “very difficult course” which notably led him to be imprisoned.
“Seeing the photo, I collapsed”
Tuesday, June 27, when the news of Nahel’s death spread, Hicham H. was at home in Val-de-Marne. “A friend called me to tell me that a 17-year-old boy had been shot in Nanterre. After I learned that it was my son by seeing the photo, I collapsed, ”he says. This delivery driver kept “hopes” of rebuilding ties with his son, he says. Now that the judicial machine is engaged, “I am waiting for the policeman who took away all my hopes to be sentenced, like everyone else. I want real justice, he took the life of a child, “says Hicham H.
Asked about the various tributes paid to his son across France in recent days, he remains impassive: “It doesn’t matter to me at all, it won’t make me come back to my son”. “I will never be able to make up for those years when I was absent,” he concludes. The policeman who killed Nahel during a road check in Nanterre has been indicted for intentional homicide and imprisoned.
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