The Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has updated its security advice for France. “The security situation in Ile de France and other major French cities is unstable,” the website said. Travel to the suburbs around Paris should be avoided.
The ministry also called for registration when traveling to France. French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne did not rule out the possibility of a state of emergency being declared to calm the situation in France.
The situation in many parts of the country is so fraught that President Emmanuel Macron left the EU summit early to chair crisis meetings. Macron avoided any statement to journalists in Brussels. Borne spoke of “unbearable and unforgivable” riots on Friday.
Crisis summit in Paris
She had met with several ministers “to take stock of the night’s violence and riots,” she tweeted on Friday. Due to the ongoing riots in France, part of local transport in the Paris metropolitan region has come to a standstill until further notice. In consultation with the police, all trams and buses must stop no later than 9 p.m., the responsible authority reported on Twitter on Friday.
Young Nahel M. was shot in the driver’s seat of a car on Tuesday during a traffic control in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre. Video showed the police officer pointing his gun at the driver and firing at close range as the car suddenly accelerated. During the check, the sentence could previously be heard: “You will get a bullet in the head.”
flames everywhere
Since then, about 1,900 cars have burned out in France. In addition, about 500 public buildings such as police stations and town halls were set on fire, broadcaster BFMTV reports on Friday. 9900 firefighters were deployed. In the Paris area alone, 934 cars went up in flames, the newspaper Le Parisien reported. There were fires in 212 buildings. According to the prefecture, 74 cars burned out in Strasbourg.
After massive protests against police brutality in several cities for two nights in a row, about 40,000 police officers and gendarmes were mobilized across the country on Friday evening to contain the riots. 5000 of them in Paris. The capital also convened a crisis team. According to the Interior Ministry, 249 police officers and gendarmes were injured on Friday evening. According to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, 667 people were arrested.
Memories of riots in 2005
The protests against racism and police brutality spread to Belgium. The police in Brussels say they arrested dozens of people on Thursday evening, including many young people, after several fires had been set and street barriers had been set up. Those arrested were later released. According to the Brussels police, two cars and several garbage cans have been set on fire. The fires were quickly extinguished.
The riots in France evoke memories of the riots in 2005, when President Jacques Chirac declared a state of emergency. The trigger was the death of two young men who were electrocuted while on the run from the police.
Source: Krone
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