News - World: France's President Emmanuel Macron has postponed a state visit to Germany in order to stay in Paris to deal with mass protests over the police killing of French Arab teenager, Nahel M, as the family members lay the deceased to rest.

France's President Emmanuel Macron has postponed a state visit to Germany in order to stay in Paris to deal with mass protests over the police killing of French Arab teenager, Nahel M, as the family members lay the deceased to rest.

Macron informed Berlin on Saturday he was postponing the state visit to manage the protests over the French police's brutality and systemic racism triggering rioting that has rocked the country for the last four nights.

Macron spoke by telephone with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier "and informed him of the situation in his country" and requested from the German side to postpone the visit which was scheduled to begin on Sunday, reports said.

The canceling of the trip is considered to be embarrassing for the French leader who had earlier this year canceled a state visit by Britain's King Charles III to France due to nationwide protests over his proposed pension reforms.

This week's nationwide mass protests alongside nighttime rioting across the country started on Tuesday after 17-year-old Nahel M was killed on June 29 by police at a traffic stop in Nanterre, the Paris suburb where he lived.

Source: Press TV