Unrest has flared nationwide after Nahel M., a 17-year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent, was shot on Tuesday, June 27, in the Nanterre suburb.
PARIS, France – France deployed 45,000 police officers and some armored vehicles on the streets on Saturday, July 1, asfor a fourth night over a teenager’s fatal shooting by an officer during a traffic stop.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said early on Saturday that 270 people had been arrested on Friday night, June 30, bringing the total to more than 1,100 since unrest ignited. Rioters in central Marseille looted a gun store and stole some hunting rifles but no ammunition, police said. One individual was arrested with a rifle likely from the store, police said. The store was now being guarded by police.Marseille Mayor Benoit Payan called on the national government to immediately send additional troops. “The scenes of pillaging and violence are unacceptable,” he said in a tweet late on Friday.
Asked on TF1’s main evening television news program whether the government could declare a state of emergency, Darmanin said: “Quite simply, we’re not ruling out any hypothesis, and we’ll see after tonight what the President of the Republic chooses.” He has asked social media to remove “the most sensitive” footage of rioting and to disclose identities of users fomenting violence.
Videos on social media showed urban landscapes ablaze. A tram was set alight in the eastern city of Lyon and 12 buses gutted in a depot in Aubervilliers, northern Paris.“Racism and problems with the police and minorities is an important topic going on and it’s important to address it,” US tourist Enzo Santo Domingo said in Paris.In Geneva, the UN rights office emphasized the importance of peaceful assembly and urged French authorities to ensure that use of force by police was non-discriminatory.
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