On the third day of protests, 875 people have been arrested. France’s president has also announced that events will be canceled in areas that could be considered “most sensitive”.
Emmanuel Macronthe president of France, has avoided the state of emergency, and has denounced an “unacceptable instrumentalization” of the death of teenager Nahel, who was shot by a police officer in Nanterre on Tuesday. The president has pleaded to continue working to contain the wave of disturbances resulting from this incident, with specific reference to the “responsibilityfrom parents.
“It is clear that the context comes from organized, violent and equipped groups (…), but also from many young people,” said Macron, who assured that a third of those arrested on Thursday evening belong to this second group. , That “sometimes they are very young“It is the parents’ responsibility to stay at home,” the president added at the end of an urgently convened inter-ministerial meeting.
He also questioned the role of the coming hours and promised that “in the coming hours” the withdrawal of “the most sensitive contentand ask for the identification of those using these networks “to incite disorder or aggravate the violence” that has hit several cities in France since the Tuesday death of Nahel, who was shot at a police checkpoint.
This has been confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior 875 arrests in the past day of protests, plans to allocate “additional resources” to contain the riots, said Macron, who also announced the cancellation of events in areas that could be considered more “sensitive”. The police of Marseilles has the protests that can be called this Friday night.
However, the president did not hint at the possible declaration of a state of emergencyas claimed by the Conservative Opposition, despite Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne suggesting hours before that “all hypotheses” are open after being questioned specifically on the issue.
Macron has condemned “with the greatest firmness“to those who, in his opinion, want to “use” the moment to “create disorder and attack the institutions”. He therefore believes that France has experienced situations over the past two nights that are “absolutely unacceptable and unjustifiable” .
Source: EITB
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