reviewer New York Times Roger Cohen said that French President Emmanuel Macron must resolve the crisis in the province as soon as possible in order not to declare a state of emergency and lose control.
“The French leader … must restore order quickly enough to avoid declaring a state of emergency, which will be seen as an admission that the government has lost control of the situation,” Cohen wrote. Contradictions in the country are so deep, and resentment against the president may be too strong to “cure”.
Former French Prime Minister Elisabeth Born He insisted All ministers will return to Paris and stay in the capital during the ongoing protests in the province.
Protests in France began after the police killed a 17-year-old teenager in the suburbs of Paris on the evening of 27 June. One day later, residents of Lille and Toulouse joined the protests that started in Nanterre. The protests then turned into riots and clashes with the police. On the night of June 29, demonstrators began to set cars on fire, smash shop windows, attack police and set up barricades. The riots continued the next day, with police reporting that more than 600 people had already been arrested.
Earlier, the French Ministry of the Interior announced how many people there were. arrested since the start of riots in the country on Friday.