2023-07-03 10:45:31
Some 3,200 people were arrested by the police and the gendarmerie, between Tuesday and Sunday, during the five nights of riots following the death of Nahel, 17, killed by a policeman, 60% of whom were not known to the police. police, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Monday. “There are 60% of these 3,200 who have no criminal record, who are not known to the police” and “have never been checked”, he added. he underlined during a trip to Reims.
The average age of those arrested is “17 years old, sometimes with children, there is no other word, 12-13 years old, who were arsonists or who attacked the police or who attacked elected officials”, he also underlined. He insisted on “the responsibility of the parents, of the family” in the supervision of these young people, “because it is not up to the national police or the gendarmerie or the mayor or even the State to solve the problem. when a 12-year-old child sets fire to a school”.
In five nights of riots until Sunday morning, the Ministry of the Interior recorded some 5,000 vehicles burned, nearly 1,000 buildings burned or damaged, 250 attacks on police stations or gendarmeries, more than 700 members of the forces of the order wounded… Follow the evolution of the situation live.
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3,200 people have been arrested since the start of the riots The riots continued last night, 157 people were arrested In five nights of riots, there are some 5,000 vehicles burned, nearly 1,000 buildings burned or degraded, 250 attacks on police stations or gendarmeriesMore more than 700 members of the forces were injuredThe third passenger in the car driven by Nahel last Tuesday presented himself to the General Inspectorate of the National Police and was heard
157 people arrested overnight from Sunday to Monday
At least 157 people were arrested overnight from Sunday to Monday, the Interior Ministry announced on Monday morning. There were also three wounded among the police. After the attack on Vincent Jeanbrun’s house, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne assured the mayors that the government “will not allow any violence to pass” and that “the greatest firmness” would be applied in the sanctions. Emmanuel Macron is due to receive the presidents of the two assemblies also on Monday, then on Tuesday the mayors of more than 220 municipalities targeted by the violence. He also asked Elisabeth Borne to meet the presidents of the parliamentary groups on Monday. The Head of State also wants to “begin meticulous and longer-term work to understand in depth the reasons that led to these events”, according to the Elysée.
After the attack on the house of the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, rallies of support in front of the town halls
In the aftermath of the attack on the house of Vincent Jeanbrun, mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, with a ram car, rallies are underway this Monday noon in front of town halls, everywhere in France, to bring their support to the elected official, as well as to all the other French city councilors, increasingly confronted with the violence of certain citizens.
A mobilization on the initiative of the Association of Mayors of France chaired by David Lisnard, the mayor of Cannes. Precisely, in the city of Cannes, as in many others, the sirens sounded at noon. About 400 people gathered in front of the Town Hall, to applaud David Lisnard, but also the police and the firefighters. “We are here to support the police, the mayors and all the victims of these events”, explained a Cannes man at the microphone of Europe 1.
The third passenger in the car heard by the IGPN
The third occupant of the car driven by young Nahel, killed Tuesday by a policeman during a road check in Nanterre, was heard late Monday morning by the IGPN, the police force, AFP learned from a source. close to the file.
The passenger reported to the General Inspectorate of the National Police at 11 a.m., the source said.
Call for a rally in front of town halls
The mayors of France have called on the population and elected officials to gather Monday at noon in front of all the town halls, invoking “a civic mobilization” after the violent attack on the home of the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) which sparked a wave of indignation across the country. All town halls in France will sound their sirens at 12 p.m. during these gatherings, the president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), David Lisnard, announced on Sunday.
In a press release calling on Sunday for “a civic mobilization of citizens for a return to republican order”, the AMF underlines that “since last Tuesday, (the) communes are everywhere in France the scene of serious unrest, which targets with a extreme violence against republican symbols such as town halls, schools, libraries, municipal police”. The shock caused by the violent car-ram attack on the home of Vincent Jeanbrun, LR mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) caused great emotion in the country, where a return to calm However, it took shape overnight from Sunday to Monday after five nights of riots following the death of Nahel, 17, killed by a police officer.
Have “trust in justice”
After this sudden surge of violence over a large territory, would the calls for calm begin to bear fruit? Sunday afternoon, the grandmother of the teenager killed last Tuesday in Nanterre, west of Paris, during a traffic check after a refusal to comply sent a message to the rioters. “Let them not break the windows, let them not break the schools, not the buses”, urged Nadia on BFMTV. “Tired”, “devastated”, she asked that the police officer who killed the shot pay for his gesture “like everyone else”, ensuring that he had “trust in justice”.
A few hours earlier, several politicians feared that “a milestone” had been “crossed” during the attack which targeted the first magistrate of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, Sunday around 1:30 a.m. (23:30 GMT), when a ram-car loaded with incendiary products entered the grounds of his home while he was in his town hall. The Créteil prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for “attempted assassination”.
While fleeing with her two young children, the wife of Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun, Mélanie Nowak, departmental councilor and deputy mayor, fractured her tibia and was hospitalized for surgery. “There is no doubt that they wanted to burn the house” and, when “they realized that there was someone inside, far from stopping on the contrary, they triggered a salvo of firework mortars which was completely crazy”, testified Vincent Jeanbrun on TF1. “I never would have imagined that my family would be threatened with death”, he was indignant, calling for “a republican start”.
South of Lyon (Rhône), in the small town of Charly, a device intended “unambiguously” to cause a fire was found Sunday morning at the mayor’s home, his services said.
Device renewed
For the third consecutive night, a massive device was maintained on the territory, with 45,000 gendarmes and police mobilized. Seized by an amateur video that contradicted the initial story delivered by the police, the point-blank shooting of a biker and the death of young Nahel, in Nanterre, shocked the very top of the state, set the country ablaze and resounded far beyond the French borders.
This wave of violence and the anger of many young residents of working-class neighborhoods against police or state violence recalled the riots that shook France in 2005, after the death of two teenagers pursued by the police. In three weeks, 10,000 vehicles had been destroyed, more than 200 public buildings burned down and some 5,200 people arrested.
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