French President Emmanuel Macron called an inter-ministerial crisis cell meeting this morning after another night of incidents, mainly in Paris, after the death of a 17-year-old teenager by a police officer during a traffic control on Tuesday, the presidency announced.
Meanwhile a total of 150 people were arrested during the night of Wednesday to Thursday in France in the new violent incidents that occurredannounced the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanen, who spoke of “onerous violence against the symbols of the Republic”.
“Town halls, schools and police stations were set on fire or attacked,” Darmanen wrote on his Twitter account. “Shame on those who didn’t call for calm,” he added.
This is the third time this year that a police officer in France has killed a citizen during a traffic stop, down from a record 13 similar incidents last year, a French police spokesman said, according to international agencies and the Athens News Agency.
There were three such incidents in 2021 and two more in 2020, according to a Reuters tally, which shows the majority of victims since 2017 are either black or of Arab origin.
Source: News Beast
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