2023-06-29 22:05:06
In the afternoon this Thursday, the march in tribute to Nahel, 17, ended in confusion with clashes, exchanges of tear gas and firework mortars, while street furniture was destroyed . At least one bank was ransacked.
The authorities fear “a generalization” of urban violence the next nights and 40,000 police and gendarmes have been mobilized in several cities in France, including 5,000 in Paris. The government has also called on units specializing in difficult interventions such as the BRI (Research and Intervention Brigade), projected at the end of the day in Nanterre or the GIGN (National Gendarmerie Intervention Group).
Death of young Nahel in Nanterre: France in the midst of a fracture
In the North, the prefecture stepped up measures Thursday evening to prevent further violence in Lille and Roubaix with the ban on all gatherings in one sector, the deployment of RAID units, a helicopter and drones.
Targeted Wednesday evening during the riots, trams and buses will not run Thursday evening after 9 p.m. in Île-de-France. Even interruption of public transport in Tours, Lille or Orléans.
In Nanterre at the start of the evening, a bank was looted and then set on fire, a café terrace was also set on fire. The BRI was deployed around 9 p.m. Fireworks were set off, and mortars fired at the police.
By midnight, 103 people had been arrested.
Other major cities affected by riots
According to Europe 1, the RAID was deployed in Trappes, Élancourt, Garges-lès-Gonesse, Bobigny, Nice, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Rennes, Nancy, Lille, Strasbourg and Lyon.
In Lille, where scattered groups of young people committed damage, in an area where the prefecture had banned all gatherings and deployed a Raid unit, AFP journalists noted.
Mobile and dispersed, small groups, mostly made up of young people, many with their faces uncovered, set fire to garbage cans and cars around 9 p.m. and damaged windows on Boulevard Montebello, near the southern ring road of the city, despite an impressive police deployment. Some broke the windows of a supermarket from which they came out with bottles of sodas.
RAID police officers intervened several times aboard a quad and an armored vehicle to push them back, pointing launchers in their direction.
In total, around 10 p.m., the police had made 24 arrests in the Lille metropolis, including seven in Tourcoing, according to a police source.
In Marseille, a demonstration began during the evening, and vehicles were set on fire all over the city and shops looted, while riots broke out in Saint-Étienne. In Toulouse, too, the situation was tense.
In Bordeaux, buses were targeted by mortar fire.
Outbreak of violence in several major cities, 40,000 police and gendarmes mobilized: France is on fire following the death of Nahel
The riots resulting from the death of Nahel also reached Brussels this Thursday evening.
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