Paris.- He french government will deploy today, for the third consecutive night, a large contingent of security forces made up of 45,000 police and gendarmes to alleviate the riots who lives the country since the death of a young man at the hands of the police, last Tuesday.
«Tonight, for the third night in a row, 45,000 police officers are mobilized throughout France to ensure the return of public order in a lasting manner. The mobilization of the internal security forces continues. It does not decay, “transmitted the French Ministry of the Interior via Twitter.
Parallel to this deployment, President Emmanuel Macron He is heading a meeting at the Elysée to which the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, and several of her ministers were summoned to make a detailed assessment of the current situation, both at the security and judicial level and the general impact of the riots.
Over the past night, at least 719 people were arrested, 45 police officers were injured, there were 871 fires on public roads and damage to 74 buildings, according to the French authorities.
Despite the still bulky figures, the Ministry of the Interior has confirmed that the last night was “quieter” than the previous ones.
What did cause a great commotion today was an incident that occurred in the context of the riots in L’Haÿ-les-Roses, on the southern outskirts of Paris. There, the mayor, Vincent Jeanbrun, suffered an attack on his family residence at dawn.
While he was working at City Hall, individuals wanted for attempted murder threw a burning car into the house, where his children, ages 5 and 7, and his wife were. One of the children had to be treated for injuries, like the mother, with a broken leg.
This episode provoked strong social indignation and the resounding repudiation of the French political class.
“We won’t let anything go. We will be at the side of the mayors », the French Prime Minister stressed this afternoon while she visited L’Haÿ-les-Roses.
The trigger for this wave of riots was the death of a 17-year-old young man of Arab descent named Nahel, who was fatally shot by a police officer as he tried to flee a police checkpoint in Nanterre on the 27th.
The images of the incident, recorded by witnesses, sparked strong indignation in the country, which degenerated into riots, especially in the popular neighborhoods of large cities and in the metropolitan area of Paris.
This Sunday, in statements to the BFM television channel, the minor’s grandmother, Nadia, asked the rioters to stop using her grandson as a “pretext” to sow violence.
