Following the murder of Nahel, a French left-wing lawmaker has demanded that France’s gun laws be overturned.
Mathilde Panot, president of the left-wing political party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), criticises the government for sending anti-terror police into working class areas and says President Emmanuel Macron “knows only repression”.
Writing on Twitter, she adds the government must repeal the law’s “licence to kill” and rebuild the police from the ground up.
The 2017 law, which allows police to shoot if a driver ignores orders to stop under some circumstances, is being widely blamed for the teenager’s death.