*A **Cause **Célèbre **Builds in France:* Outrage is growing in France over the decision to bring manslaughter charges against a jeweller who shot and killed an escaping robber but the country's top security official urged fearful storekeepers to let justice take its course. Stephan Turk, 67, has been put under curfew at home with an electronic tag after the shooting last week that left a teenage robber dead outside his jewellery shop in Nice. An accomplice escaped on a motorbike. In a country where gun violence is rare but thefts are increasingly common, the shooting has placed the government in a difficult position. "Even when faced with the unbearable, we have to let justice prevail," Interior Minister Manuel Valls said in Nice, where he was sent by the president a day after a protest by hundreds of Mr Turk's supporters...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-erupts-over-manslaughter-charges-against-jeweller-who-killed-robber-8822144.html -- ************************************************************************************************************** Professor Joseph Olson, J.D.(*Hon*. Duke), LL.M.(*Tax*. Florida) o 651-523-2142 Hamline University School of Law (MS-D2037) f 651-523-2236 St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 c 612-865-7956 jol...@hamliine.edu http://law.hamline.edu/constitutional_law/joseph_olson.html
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