The French government, on Thursday, called for calm after a 16-year-old boy of Turkish descent, whose motorbike collided with a police car in disputed circumstances on a road outside Paris, was declared brain-dead, Reuters reports. The victim’s family’s lawyer accused police of ramming a patrol car into his motocross bike during a high-speed chase. Prosecutors said two officers were in custody, pending a possible manslaughter investigation, adding that police said the teenager had failed to stop as instructed while riding along the pavement and, as he fled, had hit a police vehicle at a crossroads. Prosecutors said, earlier in the day, that the boy had died. Wednesday’s crash happened just over two months after police shot and killed a 17-year-old […] Source
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