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Stop rioting, pleads Nahel Merzouk’s grandmother

A grandmother of the teenage boy killed by a policeman in a Paris suburb pleaded for an end to the violence after five nights of rioting in France.

As the authorities prepared to deploy 45,000 police and special forces officers on Sunday night, 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk’s grandmother Nadia appealed for calm.

“I say to the people who are breaking things up — stop,” she told the French broadcaster BFMTV. “Nahel is dead. My daughter had just one child. She’s lost, it’s over, my daughter has no life.”

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