2023-08-29 12:45:32
In France, around 2,000 people have been sentenced for the nationwide riots after a fatal police shot at a 17-year-old. “It was about restoring law and order,” French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti told RTL radio on Tuesday. He called for a “rapid, decisive and systematic” response from the courts to the worst riots since 2005.
According to Dupond-Moretti, of a total of 2,107 defendants, 1989 were found guilty and 1,787 sentenced to prison terms – many of them in summary proceedings. At the end of June, a police officer in a Paris suburb shot dead 17-year-old Nahel M., who tried to avoid a traffic check. After the youth with North African roots was shot, there were night-long, often violent protests in the greater Paris area and many other cities and communities across the country. The anger of many young people was directed at symbols of the French Republic, such as town halls.
During the unrest, almost 3,500 people were taken into police custody across the country, more than 12,000 vehicles burned down and a good 1,100 buildings were damaged. The protests were only calmed down with the deployment of around 45,000 security forces.
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