2023-06-29 06:36:10
The authorities’ call for calm has been useless. The riots have spread last night throughout France, not only in the periphery of Paris, in reaction to the death, on Tuesday, of a 17-year-old boy by a shot by the police in Nanterre.
The strong smell of burning plastic has formed a cloud, this morning, in the satellite neighborhoods of the French capital. Numerous towns have been affected by the indiscriminate burning of vehicles and garbage containers. The incidents have reached suburbs of other cities such as Toulouse, Lille, Nice, Saint-Étienne, Lyon, Dijon or Clermont-Ferrand.
Urban buses and a tram have gone up in flames
In addition to vehicles, individuals and the police, police stations, schools, urban buses and a tram have been the object of attack. There has also been looting of shops. There has even been an attempt to attack the Fresnes prison, in the Val-de-Marne, to free detainees. The youth groups that were the protagonists of all these events used, as usual, high-powered fireworks to confront the police and set fires. In Villerbaune, on the outskirts of Lyon, an apartment building that had caught fire had to be evacuated. Several neighbors would have
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had announced the preventive deployment, overnight, of 2,000 police officers, but that number was clearly insufficient to deal with protests so widespread throughout the territory.
This Thursday, starting at 2 in the afternoon, a demonstration will take place in front of the Nanterre City Hall to express revulsion for the death of Nahel. The young man died from a shot fired by an agent when the boy, who was driving a yellow rental Mercedes, tried to flee from a checkpoint.
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