At least 150 arrested on the second night of riots in France over the death of a young man of Algerian origin

At least 150 people were arrested this morning, the second night riots in France for the death by police of a 17-year-old black adolescent in the city Nanterreon the outskirts of Paris.

“A night of unbearable violence against the symbols of the Republic: city halls, schools and police stations were set on fire or attacked. 150 people detained,” French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin briefly wrote on his Twitter this morning.

The Naël’s death with the shots of a policeman who claimed that he used the weapon in self-defense – a version denied by the video footage of the event – already caused riots last night in which there were about thirty arrestees, forty vehicles on fire and 24 injured policemen.

In his message on Twitter, the French Minister of the Interior called for “support for the police, gendarmes and firefighters who bravely faced the attack” of the perpetrators of the quarrel, and complained about those who attack them. “Shame on those who did not call for calm,” he added.

french president Emmanuel Macron, convened an interdepartmental crisis unit in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for this Thursday to resolve the situation. French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne called for calm and assured that “justice will be served”, since the police intervention “was not in accordance with the rules of operation”.

On Wednesday, after the first night of violent incidents, concentrated mainly in Nanterre and other towns on the outskirts of Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron and several members of his cabinet called for calm and expressed solidarity with the Naël family, saying his death was “inexplicable and inexcusable”. .

Naël, a young black man who was driving a rented yellow Mercedes sports car on the streets of Nanterre without a license on Tuesday morning, was stopped by several police motorcyclists, one of whom, according to a video recorded by a witness, He shoots him at close range through the window. the driver as soon as the young man started the vehicle to escape, although he did not threaten the integrity of either of the two agents.

Paris police headquarters also reported Fr attempted escape of prisoners in Fresnes prisonlocated on a French island, according to reports le figaro and collected by Europa Press. Dozens of hooded men tried to break into the prison to escape, but the attempt was rebuffed.

Protesters attacked several police vehicles, police stations and town halls, and set fire to an elementary school and a store. The situation in Nanterre It was out of control, writes the mentioned newspaper, which reports that the police left the place where the conflict took place.