2023-07-01 09:27:28
New scenes of looting and sporadic violence in several cities in France. The night from Friday June 30 to Saturday July 1 was tense, but a little less than the previous ones, according to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who spoke during the night of violence from a “lower intensity”. According to the latest report from the ministry, established at 11 a.m., there were 1,311 arrests at the national level. Still according to the ministry, in Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône) four police officers were injured by police shotgun fire, two had bruises and two suffered impacts on the nose and thigh. The Lyon public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for “willful violence with a weapon on persons holding public authority”. Follow our live.
An “exceptional” mobilization of the police. Friday followingnoon, Gérald Darmanin announced, at the end of a second interministerial crisis committee in two days, the mobilization “exceptional” of 45,000 police and gendarmes and elite units like the GIGN.
Fewer fires. According to a report from the Ministry of the Interior at 11 a.m., there were 2,560 fires on public roads and 1,350 vehicle fires, as well as 234 fires or damage to buildings, less than the previous night. The ministry also lists 31 attacks on police stations, 16 attacks on municipal police stations and 11 gendarmerie barracks.
Nahel’s funeral scheduled for Saturday. According to an announcement relayed on social networks, the funeral of the young man killed by the shooting of a police officer will take place on Saturday in Nanterre and will conclude with a burial in the early followingnoon. “We must continue to surround this family, this mother who will bury her child tomorrow”, said Friday Patrick Jarry, the mayor of Nanterre, where the young man was from. In a statement, lawyers for Nahel’s family urged journalists not to be present at the funeral in order to avoid any “media interference”.
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