At least 994 people were arrested France 79 police were injured inside fourth riot night in a row from the police killing of a young man trying to escape from a barricade last Tuesday. Figures released by the French Ministry of the Interior, despite numerous arrests, events were less intense than the previous night. The number of those arrested the previous night had risen to 875, and nearly 300 police were injured, although none of them seriously.
“The level of acts of violence committed last night was less intense than the previous night, thanks to the mobilization of internal security forces across the country,” the ministry said on the social network Twitter. The total should be added approximately to the figures given by the Ministry of Interior. 1,350 vehicles were set on fire and about 234 buildings were damagedalso according to ministry sources in the local press.
Events outside of Paris
Although serious events did not stop in the surrounding areas such as Seine-Saint-Denis or Nanterre, where the young Nahel M. died at the age of 27, the night was calmer in the Paris region.
More worrying was the violent acts, including scenes of looting, in places like Marseille, Grenoble or Lyon, where the government had to send reinforcements at night at the City Council’s request.
For this From Friday to Saturday night, the Government took 45,000 police officers onto the streets. With a reinforced device, which involved the deployment of light armored vehicles from the Gendarmerie.
Nahel’s Funeral
17-year-old Arab-born Nahel was shot dead By a policeman on the 27th He was trying to escape from a police checkpoint in Nanterre. The footage of the events recorded by the witnesses caused a strong outrage in the country, which turned into a riot, especially in the popular neighborhoods of big cities and the metropolitan area of Paris.
As Nanterre mayor Patrick Jarry explained in detail the day before, the young man will be buried this Saturday, but the family told the French press that they wanted it to be an “admiration” day and called it a “memory” so that journalists would not come.