2023-06-30 02:04:00
In France, serious riots broke out for the second night in a row after the police shot a youth deadly. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced yesterday that 150 people had been arrested across the country.
Dozens of police officers were injured in clashes with protesters, the minister said. In response, the police mobilized 40,000 officers nationwide for Thursday evening. According to Darmanin, 5,000 of these police officers mobilized for the coming night are to be deployed in the greater Paris area.
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On the second night of the protest, numerous buildings in various cities were attacked or set on fire by the authorities. “A night of unbearable violence against symbols of the Republic: town halls, schools and police stations are set on fire or attacked,” Darmanin wrote on Twitter.
The most violent clashes broke out in Nanterre, where the killed youth named Nahel had lived. On Thursday night, an angry crowd set fire to cars and shot the police with firecrackers.
There were also clashes between police and demonstrators in Lille in the north and in Toulouse in the south-west. According to the police, there were also riots in Amiens, Dijon and in the Essonne department south of Paris.
President Macron called an emergency cabinet meeting. “The past few hours have been marked by scenes of violence against police stations, but also schools and town halls and thus institutions of the Republic, and these scenes are completely unjustified,” he said at the beginning of the deliberations.
Minister Raab canceled the visit
The visit to Paris by Integration Minister Susanne Raab (ÖVP) was severely affected by the riots in the outskirts of the French capital. All official dates had to be canceled yesterday for safety reasons. Raab said in a press conference: “If we have districts in the middle of Europe where it is no longer possible to visit them, that is a very shocking situation.”
Actually, Raab should have visited one of these crime-ridden suburbs of Paris with the French State Secretary Sonia Backes. However, the security situation did not allow this. Official delegations were not allowed to visit the districts.
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