2023-07-01 07:54:00
14:43
Macron postpones his state visit to Germany
“Given the internal situation, the President of the Republic has indicated that he wishes to be able to stay in France for the next few days. The two presidents have therefore agreed to postpone the visit to Germany to a later date”, indicates the Elysée.
French President Emmanuel Macron © ANP / EPA
12:35
Nahel’s funeral has begun
A funeral ceremony is scheduled for early afternoon at the Ibn Badis mosque in Nanterre. Interment will then take place in the Mont Valérien cemetery.
11:51
1,311 arrests
A total of 1,311 people were arrested overnight from Friday to Saturday in France during the fourth night of violence following the death of Nahel, killed on Tuesday by a police officer, said the Interior Ministry.
This figure is a marked increase compared to the arrests of the previous night which had concerned 875 people, according to the ministry.
More than 1,350 cars were also set on fire and a total of 2,560 fires recorded on public roads, while 31 police stations were attacked, the same source added.
A very important device, no less than 45,000 police officers, made it possible to contain the violence for this fourth night of riots, of “less intensity”, still according to the Ministry of the Interior.
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11:17
Three police officers injured by shotgun fire in Lyon
At least 79 police officers were injured during riots in several cities in France, according to the French Interior Ministry. According to Le Parisien, in Lyon, three police officers were hit by an individual who was passing by on a scooter and who shot them “with a long shotgun””.
“We have crossed a threshold, we have crossed the red line”, alerted Alain Barberis, departmental secretary Alliance Police du Rhône. “Here it’s unheard of and it’s very worrying.”
The police officers involved were shot in the groin, right thigh and cheek under the left eye. They are unable to work for five to nine days. The Lyon public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation.
11:10
103 people in police custody in Paris
103 people were taken into police custody in Paris after the riots which broke out overnight from Friday to Saturday, said the Paris prosecutor’s office.
09:52
Clashes and looting in Marseille
Looting, throwing projectiles at police vehicles, tear gas: a few days after the death of young Nahel during a police check, Marseille experienced a very tense night between Friday and Saturday, the Minister of the Interior deciding to send reinforcements.
In total, the toll is heavy: 95 arrests, 31 injured on the side of the police, most of them light, very many garbage can fires, three burned vehicles and many shops looted, according to the police headquarters of Bouches- of the Rhone.
Groups of young people, often masked and “very mobile” robbed several signs in the center, but also in certain popular districts in the north of the city. A major fire, “linked to the riots”, according to a police source, also broke out in a supermarket.
A few hunting weapons were also stolen from an armory, but without ammunition, according to the police headquarters.
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08:57
Mbappé and the Blues call for calm
The time of violence must end to make way for that of mourning, dialogue and reconstruction.
Blues
The players of the French football team, saying they are “marked and shocked by the brutal death of young Nahel”, launch a “call for appeasement, awareness and responsibility”, ensuring that the violence must leave room for “other peaceful and constructive ways of expressing oneself”.
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08:54
994 arrests during a fourth night of violence
Some 994 people were arrested overnight from Friday to Saturday in France during violence of a “lesser intensity”, four days after the death of young Nahel, killed on Tuesday by a police officer, the French Ministry of Health said on Saturday morning. ‘Interior.
There were “79 police officers and gendarmes injured”, added the ministry, in a still provisional report. 1,350 vehicles were set on fire, 234 buildings were set on fire or damaged and 2,560 fires were recorded on public roads.
In addition to the Paris region, several cities in France have been shaken by violence, including Marseille, Lyon, Saint-Etienne or Grenoble.
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