French police say they arrested 157 people Sunday night as nearly a week of violent protests sparked by a teenage boy's killing appeared to slow. More than 1,300 people were arrested in a single night at the height of the violence last week.
French police said they arrested 157 people nationwide Sunday night as almost a week of violent protests and riots sparked by the 17-year-old boy's killing appeared to slow.
Police block a road leading to the home of a local lawmaker in the Paris suburbs Monday after it was attacked by protesters.As French people returned to work Monday morning, though, authorities appeared to have reclaimed a tenuous hold on public order — and public opinion. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, center, during an impromptu gathering of officials outside City Hall on Monday.“Nothing justifies the violence,” she said. “Vincent Jeanbrun has our support for these unacceptable and unqualifiable acts and the response will be at the height of these acts of violence.”
Nahel, who was of Algerian descent, was killed by a single shot from a police officer during a traffic stop Tuesday morning in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. The officer accused of the killing has been given a preliminary charge of voluntary homicide.Prosecutors said Nahel had committed a number of traffic infractions and driven through pedestrian crossings to evade police but had been forced to stop by heavy traffic, allowing officers to approach the car.
“Everyone called him oui oui, because he’d say yes to everything,” said Anais, who described herself as the best friend of Nahel’s cousin and a close companion in his youth.Smashed windows at a market in L’Hay-les-Roses, a suburb of Paris, on Monday.Anais, like Nahel’s other family members and friends, said she was against violence that targeted the institutions that many in France’s disadvantaged communities rely on for public services.
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