Funeral of 17-year-old French teenager Nahel M., who was shot dead by a police officer on Tuesday and her death sparked a huge wave of protests. nationwide protestsIt started this Saturday in the midst of the strictest privacy, at the request of his family, to avoid further escalation.
The funeral began at 11:00 am at the Mont-Valérienm funeral home in the city of Rueil-Malmaison (France), neighboring Nanterre, where the young man died after the Muslim ritual.
According to ‘Le Monde’ witnesses, most of Nanterre s residentsThey approached the funeral home from a cautious distance to pay their respects.
The family arranged a security mission of friends and relatives who drew a cordon to keep the media and strangers out.
Nahel M.’s body will be transferred to the Ibn Badis Mosque in Nanterre, where the funeral prayer will be held and the janaza salat will be performed. The body will be buried in the Muslims section of the Mont-Valérien cemetery at 14.30.
In the statement sent, In the past few hours to French media, the teenager’s family has reiterated their request for privacy and A call for calm in the face of enormous tension in the country where more than 1,300 people were arrested and 79 agents and gendarmes were injured in the events that broke out last night alone.