Nanterre in a sentence

Police officers stand near burning cars during protests in Nanterre, west of Paris, on June 28, 2023, a day after the killing of a 17-year-old boy in Nanterre by a police officer’s gunshot following a refusal to comply.

A person reacts while a police officer holds a baton during protests following the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a French police officer in Nanterre during a traffic stop, in Paris, France, July 2, 2023.

At least nine arrests were made in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, where authorities said rioters had petrol jerry cans and Molotov cocktails.

But this time, the cops felt betrayed by the president, the prime minister, Parliament, and the prosecutor who had sent their colleague in Nanterre to jail.

Earlier in the day, 17-year-old Merzouk was laid to rest in the suburb of Nanterre, where he had been shot dead by a police officer during a traffic stop on Tuesday, triggering days of fierce clashes.

June 29: Riot police prepare to charge during clashes following the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nahel in Nanterre.

Macron’s remarks classifying the police shooting of the teenager in Nanterre as “inexcusable” have only strengthened Jonathan C.’s concerns about how authorities are handling the riots, in which thousands of cars and shops have been damaged.

Nahel Merzouk was allegedly killed by a police officer during a traffic stop on Tuesday in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.

Nahel's burial is scheduled for today, according to Nanterre Mayor Patrick Jarry, who said France needs to "push for changes" in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

The 17-year-old whose death Tuesday spawned the anger, identified by his first name Nahel, was laid to rest Saturday in a Muslim ceremony in his hometown of Nanterre, a Paris suburb where emotion over his loss remains raw.

The police officer suspected of firing on Nael remains in custody and faces potential manslaughter charges, according to the Nanterre prosecutor's office.

Christian Sadie of Team South Africa competes in the men's 100m backstroke S7 heats on day six of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Paris La Defense Arena on in Nanterre, France on Tuesday.

On the final day of Olympic competition, members of Team Serbia celebrate their win, dragging Head Coach Uros Stevanovic into the pool after winning the men’s final water-polo match against Team Croatia at Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, France.

Imane, a student at Paris-Nanterre University, rarely leaves her 28-square-metre studio in her student housing facility.

It has also be raised at a student assembly in Toulouse (to be voted on today), and will be raised in Nanterre and Lyon.

Mr Sarkozy, 63, was taken into custody in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.

On Friday, a court in Nanterre, outside Paris, put a temporary freeze on several of Hallyday’s estates in – at the request of his two oldest children who were left out of his will.

They were presented after Sarkozy was questioned for two days by anticorruption police at a station in Nanterre, northwest of the French capital.

Its creation reflected the implementation of a law passed in 1964, and Nanterre had already been selected as the prefecture for the new department early in 1965.

The active ideologists (“enragés” and Situationists) behind the revolutionary events in Strasbourg, Nanterre and Paris, numbered only about one or two dozen persons.