2023-06-30 15:13:32
French President Emmanuel Macron has appealed to the parents of the thousands of young people who are taking to the streets across France at night to protest the death of a 17-year-old boy at the hands of a police officer after skipping a police control in Nanterre, on the outskirts of Paris. “The context we are experiencing is the result of organized and equipped groups, but also of many young people,” said the President of the Republic. “A third of the detainees are young or even very young,” insisted the Head of State. “It is the responsibility of the parents to keep them at home. I appeal to families’ sense of responsibility.”
“Platforms and networks play a very important role,” he added, citing TikTok and Snapchat. “The identity of those who use social networks to call disorder will be requested.” “We will take several measures in the next few hours,” said Macron, who has been participating since early this afternoon in a crisis meeting with members of his government about the riots that, on the third consecutive night, have led to 875 arrests throughout the country. . The leader has assured that “nothing justifies violence” and has condemned “this unacceptable situation.”
The Ministry of the Interior has communicated the update of these figures, presented as final, on a night in which the rioters attacked 492 public buildings, to a large extent engulfed in flames, as well as 2,000 vehicles set on fire.
Hours later, Minister Gérald Darmanin reported that the prefects had to stop buses and trams throughout France from 9:00 p.m. In a videoconference with all the prefects, the Interior Minister has demanded that “public surface transport (buses and trams) stop throughout France from 9:00 p.m.”.
The decision goes into effect tonight and will stand until further notice.
Macron, who had been participating in the European Council since yesterday in Brussels, has returned to Paris at noon without appearing in the Belgian capital, as is customary at the end of a European Union summit.
Participating in the crisis meeting are, in particular, its Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne; and the holders of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin; Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti; Defense, Sébastien Lecornu; Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, Christophe Béchu, and Urban Policies and Housing, Olivier Klein.
One of the points on the table is to take exceptional measures, such as the declaration of a state of emergency, about which Borne was questioned this morning, who has not ruled it out.
The Prime Minister responded that “all possibilities are being examined with a priority, the return of republican order to the entire territory.”
Last night, 40,000 police and gendarmes had been deployed throughout the country to try to prevent a repetition of the riots that began on Tuesday, the day a 17-year-old minor from the city of Nanterre died from a police shot. the outskirts of Paris, when he tried to escape from a control with a car that he was driving without having a license.
With information from Efe
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