Updates on the Day’s News: Nahel Shooting Indictment, Urban Violence, Biodiversity Collapse, and More

Update on the day’s news.

The policeman who shot Nahel indicted for intentional homicide and remanded in custody. The officer responsible for the shooting who killed Tuesday morning Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager, in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) was indicted on Thursday for intentional homicide and placed in pre-trial detention, announced the Nanterre prosecution. “Tonight my client went to prison for having applied a shot that he thought was necessary, with the weapon given to him by the State to ensure his safety and that of the citizens”, reacted the policeman’s lawyer, Me Laurent-Franck Liénard, specifying to be ready to “contest and fight” this judicial decision, “by all legal means”. Our live on the aftermath of Nahel’s death.

After Nahel’s death, the white march became a march of anger. The march in tribute to Nahel left at the beginning of the afternoon from the Pablo Picasso city, in Nanterre. The victim’s mother, perched on a van, wearing a “Justice for Nahel” t-shirt, opened the parade. Some 6,200 people made up the rally, according to the Paris police headquarters, including “1,000 disruptors who degenerated the march”. It ended in confusion with clashes, exchanges of tear gas and fireworks. Several fires were lit near the prefecture and cars burned. Eight people were arrested, according to the police headquarters. Our report.

Faced with the risk of conflagration, the executive between appeasement and firmness. Elisabeth Borne and her ministers deployed to several hotspots of urban violence triggered by the fatal police shooting against the 17-year-old teenager, striving to combine appeasement and firmness to avoid the conflagration and recurrence of the riots of 2005 President Emmanuel Macron himself set the tone. The death of Nahel, shot dead on Tuesday in Nanterre after refusing to comply, is “inexcusable”, but the urban violence that followed and escalated is “unjustifiable”.

The French State considered partly responsible for the collapse of biodiversity. It is a “historic” decision for the NGOs: the State has been ordered to repair within a year an “ecological damage” linked to the massive use of pesticides in agriculture, accused of causing a collapse of the biodiversity. In a long-awaited decision rendered on Thursday in the so-called “Justice for the living” file, the Paris administrative court gave the State until June 30, 2024 at the latest to better respect its trajectories for the decline in the use of pesticides and water protection. Our article.

No hijab on football fields, decides the Council of State. The Council of State rejected this Thursday the request of “Hijabeuses” who wanted to play veiled football, a case which provoked an outcry from the political class and calls for legislation on the question of religious symbols in sport. . In its decision, the highest court considers that the players are indeed users of a public service and therefore not subject to the duty of “neutrality”, but that the French Football Federation (FFF) can enact the rules it considers necessary for the “good running” of the matches.

In the United States, the Supreme Court puts an end to positive discrimination in universities. A year after ending federal abortion rights, sparking helpless outrage from a majority of Americans, the conservative-locked U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ended affirmative action programs at University. Its six conservative magistrates judged, against the opinion of the three progressives, unconstitutional the admission procedures on campuses taking into account the color of the skin or the ethnic origin of the candidates.

Kyiv says it is progressing slowly in its counter-offensive, two Ukrainian generals killed according to Moscow. Ukraine claimed to be making slow progress in the east, after almost a month of counter-offensive. “We are advancing near Bakhmout and it is continuing,” said the commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, Oleksandre Syrsky. For its part, Russia claimed to have killed two Ukrainian generals in a strike on the city of Kramatorsk, near the front, two days after a bloody bombardment on a restaurant in this city which left 12 dead and 65 injured, according to the authorities. Ukrainians.

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Laure Adler: “Democracy cannot be maintained in formalin, it has to be worked on every day”. As she hosts “Blue Hour” for the last time, this Thursday, June 29 on France Inter, the journalist returns without nostalgia to her career, the importance of a plural public service, feminism, and the absolute need for dialogue between generations. Interview.

Sea, murders and curses: in Borgo prison, the inflexible old man and the “perpetual sentence”. In prison for sixty years, Tommy Recco, 89, saw the courts reject all his requests for parole. According to our information, his lawyers will file a request before the ECHR this Friday. “Libé” retraces, between crimes and mysticism, the “out of the ordinary” life of the Corsican prisoner who has always sworn to be innocent. Investigation.

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