The fundraising effort was launched on GoFundMe by a French far-right media personality and has received more than 72,000 donations
topped 1.4 million euros on Tuesday, outstripping donations to his victim’s family and drawing anger from a swathe of French society.
Leftwing politicians have branded the fundraiser as shameful while the far right has defended a police force it says is a daily target for violence in the low-income suburbs that ring French cities. It is a debate that reflects the deep fractures running through French society. The June 27 shooting of Nahel, a 17-year-old of Algerian-Moroccan descent, unleashed a wave of nationwide rioting that shocked France in its violence before police clamped down on the rioters, resulting in relative quiet over the past two nights.
Rioters have torched more than 5,000 cars, looted shopping malls and targeted town halls, schools and state-owned properties considered symbols of the state.
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