667 nabbed, 249 cops injured in French protests FMTNews FMTWorld
PARIS: French president Emmanuel Macron was today to chair a new crisis meeting of ministers after a third straight night of nationwide protests over the deadly police shooting of a teenager saw cars torched, shops ransacked and hundreds arrested.
Around 40,000 police and gendarmes – along with elite Raid and GIGN units – were deployed in several cities overnight, with curfews issued in municipalities around Paris and bans on public gatherings instated in Lille and Tourcoing in the country’s north.Interior minister Gerald Darmanin said 667 people had been arrested in what he described as a night of “rare violence”, while 249 police officers were injured, none of them seriously.
In her first media interview since the shooting, Nahel’s mother, Mounia, told the France 5 channel: “I don’t blame the police, I blame one person: the one who took the life of my son.” As part of measures to restore calm, Paris bus and tram services were halted after 9pm yesterday, the region’s president said.In the city centre of Marseille, a library was vandalised, according to local officials, and scuffles broke out nearby when police used tear gas to disperse a group of 100 to 150 people who allegedly tried to set up barricades.
Firefighters in the northern municipality of Roubaix, meanwhile, dashed from blaze to blaze throughout the night, with a hotel near the train station also catching fire, sending its dozen or so residents fleeing into the streets. A video, authenticated by AFP, showed two police officers standing by the side of the stationary car, with one pointing a weapon at the driver.The police officer then appears to fire as the car abruptly drives off.
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