memory – The procession of several hundred people reached Nelson Mandela Square, in Nanterre, where the teenager was killed a year ago
Faces are closed, eyes sometimes wet with tears: one year after the death of Nahel, killed on June 27, 2023 by a police officer, nearly a thousand people paid tribute to him on Saturday in Nanterre during a silent march where the legislative elections were on everyone’s minds.
The procession of several hundred people set off around 2:30 p.m. to reach Nelson Mandela Square, where the teenager died a year ago: around ten of his friends surrounded his mother, Mounia Merzouk, behind a banner demanding “Justice for Nahel and for all the others”.
“Against oblivion”
Deeply moved, Mounia Merzouk thanked the participants and invoked the memory of her son, “joyful, helpful” and “always smiling”. “When I go home, I have no one left, I no longer have my baby”, she said, demanding that “justice be done”.
“Every day, she cries,” said her lawyer, Me Nabil Boudi.
In the march, where no police officer was visible, Fatma, an activist within the Urgence Palestine collective from the 18th arrondissement of Paris who preferred to keep her name quiet, came to Nanterre “against oblivion. There is nothing: no trial, the police officer is free and Nahel will not come back. »
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