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Fundraiser For Charged Fench Policeman Accused of ‘Organized Gang Fraud’ by Family of Slain Teen

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A fundraiser to support the family of the French police officer who shot and killed a runaway teenager driver has been disabled by the organizer after surpassing €1.6 million.
The GoFundMe campaign launched six days ago had amassed 85,105 individual donations from members of the public expressing solidarity with the officer before the ability to add further donations was paused on Wednesday evening with the total at €1,636,190.

The officer, known as Florian M., was detained and held on homicide charges after shooting dead 17-year-old Nahel M., a boy of Algerian descent who had attempted to drive off after being stopped by police….
The popularity of the fundraiser, which states its support for Florian M. “who has done his job and is now paying a high price,” is consistent with Ifop polling published by Le Figaro newspaper last week. The survey showed a majority of French citizens (57 percent) trust or sympathize with the police; 69 percent of respondents condemned the rioters and backed a state of emergency being invoked by the French government.
A separate fundraiser was also launched to provide support to the mother of the deceased teenager and has received €424,544 — a quarter of the funds achieved for the police officers’ family.
The crowdfunder for Florian M. and his family was widely criticized by left-wing French politicians, who claimed it sent the wrong message.

The assumed message is ‘kill Arabs and you will become millionaires,’” wrote David Guiraud, an MP for the La France Insoumise (LFI) party.
David Guiraud is of the far-left party, La France Insoumise, that always defends Muslim migrants. The message of this whole affair is not what he says, but rather, this: “If you, as a policeman, kill an Arab in the line of duty, you will be convicted of murder before trial by the highest officials in the land, and your family will for the rest of their lives have to live under assumed names for their own safety.”

Even prominent members of the French government attacked the fundraiser, including Minister Delegate of Cities and Housing Olivier Klein, who claimed it was associated with an ulterior motive of the “extreme right,” and Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti, who told France Inter it did “not serve to calm the situation” in the country.
French officials, from President Macron on down, have behaved like hanging judges in this whole affair. Long before a trial will be held, Macron described the policeman’s act as “inexplicable” and “unforgivable.” Similar judgements were offered by Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne and Minister of the Interior Gerard Darmanin. Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence? Now the Minister of Cities and Housing, Olivier Klein, cannot see the fundraising as a simple act of fellow feeling for a policeman whom many believe is being judged unfairly, and who wish to help his now-threatened family; it is not an act associated with the “extreme right,” as Oliver Klein claims. And if this fundraising does “not serve to calm the situation,” as the Justice Minister, Eric Dupond-Moretti, claims – meaning that Muslims might continue their rioting to protest this simple act of sympathy for the family of Florian M. — should Muslim rioters be given a veto on what can be done to help Florian M.’s family? Does the government want such aid to stop? Apparently, yes.

It is unknown whether or not the crowdfunder will resume, nor whether the French government has intervened to request its removal.
Jean Messiha, the organizer of the fundraiser who is an economist, former senior civil servant, and the president of the Vivre Français think tank, has faced accusations of “organized gang fraud” and corruption from the deceased’s family in relation to the funds, allegations he intends to contest in court.
“How is it a provocation to help a family that is in turmoil? This policeman is sleeping in prison, he has a wife and a young child who have been forced to leave their accommodation because their address was broadcast on social networks,” Messiha told CNews’ “Morandini Live” program Wednesday.

The political system has mobilized for Nahel, but who has mobilized for this policeman and his family?…
“Who did I defraud? Who is the gang? I am in contact with the policeman’s wife, who is the only beneficiary. I am also in contact with his lawyer. I have no intention of doing anything outside the law,” he added.
Nahel M.’s family has accused Jean Messiha of “fraud” – presumably, meaning that he is helping himself to some of the money that he has raised. It’s a charge for which there is not the slightest evidence, and that he angrily rejects. Now he is going to sue the family for “defamation.” One hopes that justice prevails, and that the family is forced to pay Messiha from its own crowdfunding effort, the money which now is apparently going straight into Nahel’s mother’s pockets.

One final note: the father of Nahel M., who left the family before Nahel was born, who was not present at any point during the seventeen years of Nahel’s existence, has suddenly appeared, claiming that he had been long been eager to see his son, but “circumstances” – including some years spent in prison – had prevented this. Suddenly he’s become the loving and grieving father, who has arrived too late to see his son, but just in time to find out what he can get of the money being collected for Nahel’s family, which will be the only way he can assuage his grief.
 
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