2023-07-01 20:45:14
Nearly 45,000 police and gendarmes are deployed throughout France on Saturday evening, in an attempt to maintain order.
The government renewed its security system on Saturday in anticipation of a fifth consecutive night of urban riots following the death on Tuesday of Nahel, 17, killed by a police officer and buried far from the cameras in his city of Nanterre.
Traveling to the Dreux police station (Eure-et-Loir), Minister Gérald Darmanin announced that the 45,000 police and gendarmes already mobilized last night would be on the bridge once more on Saturday evening, including 7,000 in Paris and the inner suburbs. .
Part of these staff were moved to Marseille and Lyon, the main cities affected on Friday evening.
Seized by an amateur video that contradicted the initial story given by the police, the point-blank shooting of a biker and the death of the teenager on Tuesday during a road check in Nanterre shocked the very top of the State. , ignited the whole country and resonated well beyond the French borders and especially in Algeria, the country of origin of his family.
During the night from Friday to Saturday, the police carried out more than 1,300 arrests, a record figure since Tuesday, even if Mr. Darmanin noted a drop in the intensity of the violence with in particular “50% less vehicle fires”.
Early Saturday evening, small groups of young people were already gathered on the Canebière and were quickly dispersed, noted AFP journalists. At 8:00 p.m., the situation was generally under control in Marseille, where a police source reported seven arrests for theft in a shopping center in the north of the city.
Terminal on the bridge
In the Paris region, the Créteil-Soleil shopping center (Val-de-Marne) was closed earlier, at 4 p.m., as a preventive measure, due to messages on social networks.
Many municipalities have instituted a curfew and public transport networks have been closed earlier than expected, in particular that of Ile-de-France buses and trams from 9 p.m.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne was due to go late Saturday evening to the command room of the national police at the Ministry of the Interior, then to that of the Paris police headquarters to monitor law enforcement operations there, said learned AFP from a government source.
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