The petition in support of the French police officer who killed a teenager has already raised more than a million euros

A petition in support of the family of Police officer who killed 17-year-old teenager Nahel M. has already collected more than 1,120,000 euros from 50,000 donorswhile the fundraising initiative for the Nahel family raised 230,000 euros.

“I support the family of Nanterre police officer Florian M. who has done his job and is now paying a heavy price. Support him HUGE and support our police!” reads the petition, initiated by far-right journalist Jean Messiha.

Messiha himself has expressed his satisfaction with the success of the proposal, hosted on the GoFundMe portal. “One million euros. Your world is falling apart. Ours is reborn. Thank you and bravo!”, Messiha published on Twitter after crossing the one million euros mark in a petition that initially appeared on 50,000.

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, “chose the case of Nahel. We chose the case of the police and the gendarmerie. This exemplary police officer was only doing his job,” argued the former member of the far-right party Agrupación Nacional and now close to Éric Zemmour.

Meanwhile, the collection has started precisely in Leetchi for the benefit of the Nahel family €230,000, according to figures from Monday afternoon. “Nahel, 17, died today in circumstances of extreme violence. She leaves a mother torn apart by the loss of her only child. She needs our support to face the long trials that await her” , the petition said.

The officer shot at the young man last Tuesday as he began the march in a car with the police officer leaning out of the window. caused his death five consecutive days of anti-racist protests and riots and the officer is suspended and charged with murder.

France reaches 3,200 arrests, the level of the 2005 protests

Mayors and councilors demonstrated across France this Monday to show their rejection of violence and their solidarity with vincent jeanbrun, first mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (on the southern outskirts of Paris), whose family home was attacked at dawn on Sunday as part of the riots. In addition, a total of 99 town halls have been attacked in recent days and French President Emmanuel Macron will receive 220 mayors tomorrow.

In statements collected today by EITB Media at the end of the demonstrations, Jeanbrun stated that “the republic and democracy itself are in danger”.

The French Ministry of the Interior has already signed up 3,200 arrests during the protests that erupted on Tuesday, a figure already equaling that of the mass protests of 2005, also due to the deaths of two young people, with the exception that this figure has now been reached in just six days instead of three weeks.

In the five nights of protests, the government has counted 5000 vehicles and 10,000 garbage cans on fire, 1000 damaged property, 250 attacks on police stations and more than 700 injured police or gendarmes.

Despite the fact that the wave of violence has subsided in recent hours, a display of 45,000 agents stay on the street to prevent a recurrence of riots.