Riots in France: Macron leaves the European summit in Brussels and cancels his final press conference

2023-06-30 14:12:16

Premature return to France. Emmanuel Macron had to leave the summit before its end this Friday, in order to be back in Paris at 1:00 p.m. for a meeting of the interministerial crisis unit after three consecutive nights of urban violence following the death of 17-year-old Nahel. , killed by a police officer during a check in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). Traditionally, the German Chancellor represents the French Head of State in his absence for the rest of the European Council. German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit also said that Berlin is watching “with some concern what is happening in France. »

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“All the hypotheses”, including the establishment of the state of emergency, are considered by the executive for “the return of the republican order”, for her part declared Elisabeth Borne. The Prime Minister, accompanied by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, had just visited the police station of Evry-Courcouronnes (Essonne), degraded during the night. Twenty-five youths were arrested and eight were still in custody. Ms. Borne spoke of “very violent individuals, especially very young people who attack our police stations, our town halls, our public facilities”.

Before this trip, Ms. Borne had gathered Friday morning at Matignon several ministers to take stock of the situation, denouncing acts “unbearable and inexcusable”. During this meeting, the ministers discussed the violence, the profile of the rioters, who were very young, a government source pointed out. The establishment of the state of emergency, as during the urban riots of 2005 under the presidency of Jacques Chirac, “it is obviously a question which arises”, estimated the Minister for the Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, Friday morning on Sud radio. His counterpart in charge of the City, Olivier Klein, judged on France Inter that such a measure would be “an admission of failure”, without formally excluding it.