2023-06-30 09:12:59
At least 667 people were arrested on the night from Thursday to Friday in Francethe third consecutive riot after the death of a young man in Nanterre by a shot by the police while trying to flee from a checkpoint.
The Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, He gave that figure in a message on his Twitter account and linked it to the “firm” instructions he had given.
Darmanin, that had deployed 40,000 agents to try to prevent the altercations from recurring, he stressed that police, gendarmes and firefighters had to “face unusual violence.”
Once again, the epicenter of the protests has been the city of Nanterre, on the immediate periphery of Paris.where a bank branch was set on fire and several public buildings such as schools and a tax center suffered serious damage.
But the wave of violence was not limited to sensitive neighborhoods in the Paris region, but also reached the capital, where there was looting of shops in the Les Halles neighborhood, in the center, and many other cities.
The head of state, Emmanuel Macronmust chair a crisis cell that will be held at 1:00 p.m. local time (11:00 GMT) on his return from Brussels, where he is participating in the European Council, reported the Elysee.
Yesterday he already presided over one early in the morning at the Ministry of the Interior with various members of his Government, starting with the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne. Macron had then denounced some riots “unjustifiable“.
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