French teenager dies after collision with police vehicle, govt. fears further riots

A 16-year-old boy has died following a collision between his scooter and a police vehicle west of Paris just over two months after a teen’s fatal shooting by police sparked a week of riots.

The teenager died in hospital from injuries he sustained in the collision on Wednesday night. The teenager, identified in the media as Sefa S, was initially revived from respiratory and cardiac arrest by first responders and brought to hospital but later succumbed to his injuries.

The deceased is accused of failing to comply with officers, a police source said, adding that he was being “followed at a distance” by a police car through Elancourt, a town around 30 kilometers outside Paris.

He collided with “another police vehicle” at an intersection, the source added, with a second police source saying the crash happened at around 6:40 pm (1640 GMT).

French police officers in custody after deadly crash

Prosecutors said two police officers were in custody pending a manslaughter investigation.

The prosecutors also said they were investigating police allegations that the teenager failed to stop while riding his motocross bike along the pavement and, as he fled, hit a police vehicle at a crosssection.