2023-06-30 07:55:00
Half of the arrests occurred in the Ile de France region. In Marseille, hundreds of people looted the center and the old port of the city. Macron convenes a new inter-ministerial crisis unit for today
30 jun 2023 . Updated at 07:55 h.
At least 421 people, mostly young people between the ages of 14 and 18, were detained on the third consecutive night of riots in Francewith scenes of chaos and looting in several cities after the death of a minor at the hands of the police last Tuesday, reported the local press.
The newspaper Le Figarowho cited official sources, assured that 242 of the arrests occurred in the region of the-of-Francethe most important in the country and in which it is located ParsMeanwhile in Marseilleson the Mediterranean coast, hundreds of people dedicated themselves to looting in the center and in the old port of the city.
As had already happened in previous days of riots, numerous restaurant and shop windows were broken, dozens of vehicles were set on fire and some public offices were attacked. This Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron described the acts of violence against the institutions and the Republic as unjustifiable, and held an inter-ministerial crisis meeting to take measures to restore calm. The French president has reconvened today an inter-ministerial crisis unit, which will be held at the Ministry of the Interior starting at 1:00 p.m.
Thousands of people gathered yesterday afternoon in Nanterrein lallamada White March, summoned by the young man’s mother, who paraded through the streets until ending up in the courts, where shortly before the city prosecutor, Pascal Prache, has determined that the agent involved in the case must remain in provisional prison as a suspect of a crime of homicide. The 38-year-old police brigadier has been charged this Thursday voluntary and incarcerated manslaughter.
The tension does not subside in France while the police devices are redoubled
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The news of the imprisonment of the agent, who has also been suspended from his duties, came when in Nanterre Riots and clashes were already taking place between the forces of order and some demonstrators who had participated in a rally organized by the mother of Nahel, the 17-year-old boy who died. To try to contain the situation, the Minister of the Interior took to the streets some 40,000 police and gendarmes across the country, four times more than the night before.
The defense of the policeman appeals his imprisonment
The lawyer Laurent-Franck Linard, in charge of the police’s defense, advanced that he will appeal his provisional imprisonment and assured that his client did not want to kill. The first words he uttered were to apologize and the last words he uttered were to apologize, the lawyer said in a late-night interview on the BFM television channel.
Linard indicated that as of today he will appeal against the provisional imprisonment of his client and assured that the agent never affirmed that the victim’s car, 17 years old and black, was heading towards him. However, it considered that this does not invalidate the fact that the shot was in self defensesince the partner had entered the vehicle and both could be crushed if the car turned.
The lawyer also argued that the victim had already been showing a dangerous behavior for pedestrians and cyclists and that his client tried to shoot down towards his legs, but the trajectory of the car pushed him and deflected the gun. The car had to be stopped, I thought.
He also said that his client’s imprisonment is being used to try to calm things down in the country, as video footage of his death caused a stir. grave ola indignacin social.
The Nahel’s deathIt occurred on Tuesday morning when two motorized agents chased him after having committed several violations of the traffic code at the wheel of a rental car that he was driving without having a license. When they managed to stop him by being immobilized in a traffic jam, the agents pointed their weapons at him and demanded that he turn off the engine. But instead, the young man accelerated and that was when one of the two policemen shot him in the chest at point blank range with a shot that was fatal.
Initially, the police officer stated that he had used his weapon because Nahel was threatening his integrity and that of his partner by starting the vehicle in motion, but the images recorded by witnesses at the scene have shown that this version was not supported.
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