Violence and looting hit France in a fourth night of protests as police, who were deployed in force, made more than 1,300 arrests. ManilaBulletin
Violence and looting hit France in a fourth night of protests as police, who were deployed in force, made more than 1,300 arrests and the country braced for more clashes as the funeral began Saturday of the teenager who was killed by an officer during a traffic stop.
His funeral ceremony began in the Paris suburb of Nanterre where he had lived, with a large crowd gathering at the local cemetery in a tense atmosphere, an AFP reporter said. Despite rain pouring down on Paris and its suburbs since the small hours of Saturday, rioting also flared up there, with 406 arrests made in and around the capital, a police source told AFP.
Les Bleus said they were "shocked by the brutal death of young Nahel" but asked that violence give way to "other peaceful and constructive ways of expressing oneself".The southern port city of Marseille was again the scene of clashes and looting from the centre and further north in the long-neglected low-income neighbourhoods that President Emmanuel Macron visited at the start of the week.
On Saturday, officials from several key ministries met for a crisis meeting to discuss the coming operational steps, her staff said.The killing of Nahel has revived longstanding grievances about policing and racial profiling in France's low-income and multi-ethnic suburbs. He also urged parents to take responsibility for underage rioters, one-third of whom were "young or very young".
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