France, a country where gun crime is rare but violent robberies
increasingly frequent, is divided in the wake of a robbery
turned deadly on the morning of Wednesday Sept. 11 in the French
Riviera city of Nice. Two armed thieves surprised 67-year-old
jewelry storeowner Stéphane Turk as he was raising the metal
shutters of his small store.  After being held at gunpoint, Mr.
Turk fired multiple times on the thieves as they attempted to
flee the scene, killing one: 19 year-old Anthony Asli. The young
man was well known by local police, arrested 14 times for theft
and back on the streets only a month after his last stint in
prison.  After being held for questioning, the local state
prosecutor, Eric Bedos, announced Friday that Mr. Turk would be
charged with ‘voluntary homicide’ (equivalent to second-degree
murder in the U.S.). The prosecution rejected the hypothesis
that the shopkeeper acted in self-defense, arguing that Mr. Turk
demonstrated his intention to kill the robber by firing on him
as he fled the scene o