2023-07-02 01:50:38
A total of 322 people had been arrested in France, including 126 in Paris and its inner suburbs, in the middle of the night on Sunday, according to the Ministry of the Interior, while the violence triggered by the death of young Nahel, killed Tuesday by a policeman, seemed to be in sharp retreat.
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In Marseille, in the south of the country, the scene of major incidents and looting in the night from Friday to Saturday, an important security device, supported in particular by the elite forces of the Raid and the GIGN, dispersed groups of young people fewer than the day before.
A total of 56 arrests had been recorded around midnight in the second city of France, according to local authorities.
According to figures put forward by the Ministry of the Interior, 126 people were arrested during the evening in Paris and its suburbs.
All along the avenue, small groups of young people dressed in black strolled under the eyes of the police in front of the businesses, privileged targets of the rioters in many metropolises, whose storefronts were protected by grids or wooden planks.
Around 1:30 a.m. (23:30 GMT), the police were working to evacuate the last remaining groups.
Elsewhere in the Paris suburbs, the main starting point for urban riots following the death of the 17-year-old teenager on Tuesday in Nanterre, on the outskirts of the capital, no major incident has been reported. Police were taken to task and mortars were fired towards Vigneux, in the southern suburbs.
In Lyon, an agglomeration of the center is, very affected the day before by the violence, 21 people were arrested, according to a report communicated at the end of the evening by the Ministry of the Interior.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin had announced the mobilization of a workforce comparable to the day before with 45,000 police and gendarmes, including 7,000 in Paris and the inner suburbs.
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