2023-07-02 08:33:19
At least 719 people have been arrested throughout France in the fifth consecutive night of protests and riots after the death at the hands of the police of a 17-year-old teenager, Nahel M., Tuesday in Nanterre, as reported by the country’s Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
Despite this data, Darmanin has described on his Twitter account tonight as “more calm thanks to the determined action of the police”, compared to the previous four. Of the arrests, at least 56 have been in Marseille, 21 in Lyon and 194 in Paris, the French capital, where the tension is being felt especially in the Champs Elysées, which have had to be closed by the police.
In addition, they have been trained groups around shopping centers Marseilles like Grand Littoral, Bonneveine and Le Merlan. At Le Merlan there would be a hundred people gathered in the car park.
“Under control”
In any case, the Boques del Rhone police department has remarked that “the situation is under control” in Marseille and that “potentially violent groups they have been systematically dispersed by the police and gendarmes”.
Meanwhile, in Paris it has been reported from at least 37 people arrested preventively in the vicinity of the Champs Elysees to carry weapons, according to the direction of the police, which has established 375 controls installed in which objects such as a slingshot with bearings, an American fist and Molotov cocktails have been found.
The mayor of the town of L’Haÿ-les-Roses has reported on his Twitter account that his house has been attacked with a burning car and that his wife, when trying to escape with her two children, was injured and had to be hospitalized.
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The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced that yesterday Saturday the mobilization of 45,000 police to stop the riots. The Boques del Rhone police department has announced the deployment of the GIGN in Marseille and they will have two armored vehicles from the Gendarmerie. Darmanin confirmed the deployment of five units of mobile forces in the city of Marseille “to be able to fully restore public order”.
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