Police may not stand trial over teen deaths

FRENCH prosecutors want to drop a highly charged case against two police officers in the electrocution deaths of two teens that sparked fiery nationwide riots in 2005, a judicial official said yesterday.

Lawyers for the victims’ families protested, saying the move would give the police officers undeserved impunity.

Five years after the unrest, tensions between youth and police still simmer and sometimes explode into violence in neglected housing projects around France.