2023-06-30 13:50:13
NEWSPAPER – After the 17-year-old’s death, several French cities became the scene of nightly riots. The international media follow the events closely.
Police stations, schools, shops, public transport, cars, were destroyed or set on fire during the third night of rioting which shook France on Friday evening. In total, the Interior announced 875 arrests, while the executive fears a new escalation three days after the death of Nahel, 17, killed by police fire after refusing to comply.
“The French executive faced with the challenge of the riots”, “The return of the debates on police violence”, “The difficult question of identity in the French suburbs”; the foreign press leans over to France’s bedside to try to understand the springs of this access of violence.
In the United States, a reading grid on “race, power and identity”
In the United States, the New York Times adopts a communitarian reading of events. The progressive daily sees a return to the debate on “race, power and identity” In France. Several articles make the opening of the site:Who was Nahel.M?»*, «A teenager killed by the police” or “Police gunshots, a new challenge for Macron».
The articles on the front page of the American media The New York Times, June 30, 2023. The New York Times
«In The Life and Death of Nahel M. – the only name by which the young man has been publicly identified – protesters identified themselves as French Algerians, French Moroccans, French Muslims and black French living in minority gethos , in a predominantly white country that claims not to see differences in skin color. Like them, Nahel was a French citizen of North African origin, in his case Moroccan and Algerian.“, can we read in a article that returns to the white march.
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A few lines later, the journalist mentions the clashes that took place on the sidelines of the procession: “Already, puffs of tear gas were coming down from the nearby square where Nahel was killed.Phalanxes of riot police would soon clash with protesters.The country’s tough-talking interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, announced earlier in the day that he was sending 40,000 police and gendarmes to the streets, more than four times as many as the previous day.Shortly before midnight, the government said more than 100 other people had been arrested on Thursday».
In Germany, attention is focused on “the climate of insurrection”
«This is a scenario that has been repeated for decades in France, the circumstances are similar“says for his part a journalist from the famous german daily, The world. «In the suburbs of Paris and other agglomerations, where people feeling excluded from social ascent pile up in high-rise estates, police control degenerates. A young person dies, there are riots which, in this case, spread to cities all over France overnight from Wednesday to Thursday“, quickly summarizes the article. According to the daily, the violence that punctuates the territory is the product of various typically French issues.
«A debate on discrimination and police violence is long overdue“, also advances the German media.
The front page of the German media, “We are one in a climate of insurrection”, June 30, 2023. Die Welt
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Pour The country also, France is reconnecting with its old fractures
For the spanish media The country , the violence resurfaced after a short-lived lull. “After a winter of political crisis and protests against pension reform“, France seems to see one of its “old fractures“: that of the “suburb“. The journalist describes them as spaces “multicultural and poorpopulated by children and grandchildren of immigrants, who often feel they are considered “second-class” citizens.
“The demonstrations in the French suburbs after the death of a young man shot dead by the police have rekindled tensions in the country”, headlines the Spanish media which placed its article on June 30, 2023. El Païs
The article focuses on the “political dividewhich divides France. Citing Jean-Luc Mélenchon first, the leader of the radical left, who “don’t call for calm» and Marine Le Pen, the figure of the far right who «calls for the establishment of a state of emergency». «Political violence has never been taboo in France, a country with a revolutionary tradition“, sums up the article.
English media headlines on Emmanuel Macron’s political challenge
English side, The Guardian covers the events at the opening of its site, in the form of a live broadcast. “Riots in France: Emmanuel Macron calls a crisis meeting after the violence and looting that followed the death of a teenager shot dead by the police“, displays the site. The English daily follows the events taking place in France hour by hour, with a particular interest to night riots and the resulting political decisions.
The riots in France are at the opening of the site of the English media The Guardian, on June 30, 2023. The Guardian
The BBC, which also went live, headlined “looting, fires and violenceas well as the number of people arrested overnight. The article states that “the teenager’s death has reignited grievances over police and racial profiling in French suburbs».
BBC front page, June 30, 2023. BBC
The Republic focuses its attention on rioting nights
The Italian daily headlined the number of arrests overnight and the new crisis meeting organized by the French head of state. The article is quite short and very informative.
He returns to the riots in figures and the reaction of the executive who is ready to “adapt” the rules for maintaining order.
La Repubblica article on the riots in France, June 30, 2023. La Repubblica
Belgian media The eveningfollows the events very closely
The Belgian daily opens its site on French events. And for good reason, neighboring country, it risks contagion as shown by the overflows observed during the night from Thursday to Friday. In all, 29 people were arrested by the Belgian police, including 26 minors. “I regret and condemn any desire to import into the neighborhoods of our capital the acts of urban violence that are raging in several French cities.“, even declared the mayor of Etterbeek, Vincent De Wolf, on Twitter.
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The front page of the website of Le Soir, the Belgian daily, June 30, 2023. Le Soir
*The press titles have been translated into French.
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