BREAKING: A police officer in a Paris suburb has been handed a preliminary charge of voluntary homicide in the deadly shooting of a 17-year-old that triggered two nights of riots, French prosecutors said.
Under French law, preliminary charges mean investigating judges have strong reason to suspect wrongdoing, but allow time for further investigation before a decision is made on whether to send the case to trial. The police officer has been placed in provisional detention, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Bus and rail services were shutting down at 9 p.m. to safeguard transportation workers and passengers, a decision sure to impact untold thousands of travelers in the French capital and its suburbs. As demonstrations spread to other towns, police and firefighters struggled to contain protesters and extinguish numerous blazes. Schools, police stations, town halls and other public buildings were damaged from Toulouse in the south to Lille in the north, with most of the damage in the Paris suburbs, according to a spokesperson for the national police.
Two magistrates were named to lead the investigation, Prache said. Under the French legal system, which differs from the U.S. and British systems, magistrates often lead investigations.
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