Mitigation confirmed. At the end of a night from Monday to Tuesday, with a sharp drop in violence, Emmanuel Macron must begin to reckon with a week of unrest. On Tuesday, he receives the mayors of some 220 municipalities “victims of abuse”.
With this consultation of local elected officials at the end of the morning, the President “wants to begin a meticulous and long-term work to deeply understand the reasons that led to these events,” Elysée noted.
The Interior Ministry noted a new sharp decline in overnight violence, with 72 arrests, against several hundred during the peak of violence in the morning.
The ministry also recorded 159 vehicle fires and 202 fires on public roads during the seventh consecutive riot triggered by the death of young Nahel in Nanterre.
Maintaining massive inventory
Monday was marked by several rallies across France in support of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) mayor Vincent Jeanbrun.
In his first trip since the beginning of the crisis, Emmanuel Macron accompanied his Interior Minister Gérald Tarmanin in the middle of the evening to the Beziers barracks in the 17th arrondissement of the capital, which is the BAC (anti-crime unit) at night and sectoral intervention companies.
In this case, he went to Paris police headquarters, Elysée reported. The head of state called for maintaining a “massive presence” on the ground to “strengthen the return to peace and order”, his entourage told AFP.
Total destruction
Riots erupted on the night of June 27, hours after Nahel’s death, when a 17-year-old boy was shot at point-blank range by a police motorcycle during a traffic stop.
The scene was captured by an amateur video, contradicting the police’s initial version which claimed that the vehicle driven by the youth crashed into them.
Its viral spread has sparked anger from youth groups in its home district of Nanterre and elsewhere in France, where clashes with police have escalated, public buildings have been destroyed and shops looted.
According to figures sent to AFP by the Interior Ministry on Tuesday, 3,486 people were arrested, 12,202 vehicles were burned, 1,105 buildings were burned or damaged, and 209 premises of the national police, gendarmerie or municipal police were attacked since June night. 27 to 28.
A total of 374 people have immediately appeared and been questioned since Friday, the Ministry of Justice said.
One billion euros
Major French employers’ organizations, for their part, are calling on the government to take measures to support affected traders and entrepreneurs, especially a “relief fund” for those who “have lost everything”. Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, president of Medef, estimated the damage at one billion euros.
As for the investigation, the Inspector General of the National Police (IGPN) on Monday questioned the third person in the car driven by Nahel. Wanted from the truth, this man presented himself before the “police of the police”. The police officer responsible for the shooting that killed Nahel was charged with first degree murder and jailed.
This article was published automatically. Sources: ats / afp
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