Riots subside in France, with 157 new detainees

2023-07-03 08:36:07

At least 157 people were arrested in the sixth consecutive night of riots in Franceaccording to the figures presented this Monday by the Ministry of the Interior, which in any case show that there were many fewer incidents than the previous one.

The security forces did not report any particularly serious event, such as the one that had occurred on the night of Saturday to Sunday, when there was a particularly violent attack against the house of the mayor of the city of Haÿ les Roses, in the Paris region.

Since this outbreak began by the death last Tuesday by a police shot of a 17-year-old boy that an attempt was made to jump a control in the city of Nanterre, next to Paris, more than 3,000 people have been arrested and in 260 cases, according to the France Info radio station, they had to be tried in immediate appearance. For example, in the Court of Grenoblewhich was operating on an exceptional basis this Sunday, some sentences to several months in firm prison have already been handed down for some of those arrested.

This noon they are summoned throughout France rallies in town halls of the country in support of the mayors after the attack on the home of the mayor of L’Haÿ les Roses.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, who has totally disrupted his agenda to dedicate himself entirely to the crisis opened by this social outbreak, plans to receive the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate. The prime minister, Elisabeth BorneFor its part, it has summoned the leaders of the main political parties.

a deceased firefighter

A firefighter working to extinguish a fire in a car park from the city of Saint Denis, caused by the riots that France has been experiencing for the past six days in the northern outskirts of Paris, has died, announced the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. In a message on his Twitter account, the minister explained that the dead man, who I was 24 years oldwas chief corporal of the Paris Fire Brigade.

His death, in circumstances that have not yet emerged in an underground car park in this popular city on the northern outskirts of Paris, occurred despite the rapid intervention of his colleagues, Darmanin stressed.