Violent protest in France continues, over 400 arrested

The police officer, accused of killing a 17-year-old African boy near Paris, which sparked off violent protests, has apologised to the victim's family, according to his lawyer. "The first words he pronounced were to say sorry and the last words he said were to say sorry to the family," Laurent-Franck Lienard, the lawyer, told BFMTV. "He is devastated, he doesn’t get up in the morning to kill people." Violence broke out on Tuesday after Nahel M, a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent, was shot dead by the police officer during a traffic stop in Nanterre, the working-class town on the western outskirts of Paris. The police officer (38) has been handed a preliminary charge of voluntary homicide.