Burnt bus, the fourth night of riots in France MOHAMMED BADRA | EFE
President Emmanuel Macron is postponing his first state visit to Germany in 23 years, citing the government’s inability to tackle the country’s near-rebellious climate
The French government has so far proved unable to stop the chaos and violence that has spread across the country since the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old Algerian boy, at the hands of police in Nanterre, in the Paris region. Given the climate of near-rebellion France is experiencing — and despite the fact that, according to Home Affairs, the level of violence dropped from Friday night to Saturday — President Emmanuel Macron was forced to cancel the planned start of a state visit to Germany tonight and that would be the first in 23 years.
The President of the Republic could not afford to leave the country and give a new one misstep, such as the one committed last Wednesday, for which he was widely criticized. During the second night of the argument, Macron and his wife enjoyed an Elton John concert at the Accor Arena.
In addition, although the Ministry of Interior states that the violence has decreased, it did on Friday night more than 1,300 people were detained for participating in riots that resulted in 1,350 burned vehicles, 234 burned or damaged buildings, and 2,560 fires on public roads, along with attacks on 31 police stations, 16 municipal police stations, and 11 gendarmerie barracks.
tour of the ministers
In order to try to give citizens the image that their rulers are with the citizens who are suffering the consequences of the rebels, Macron sent his ministers into the field yesterday. Head of the Judiciary Eric Dupont Morettitraveled to Créteil where he criticized the role of social networks as an intensifier of violence, and the passivity of parents who let their 13-year-old children roam the streets, and they will “rob shops and jewelry stores, or rob town halls or police stations.
Minister of Economy, Bruno Le Mairehe made a list of the damage caused by the violence of the past few days, although it is too early to quantify it: a dozen shopping centers, 200 fashion and food stores, 250 tobacconists and 250 banking agencies They were the subject of robberies and robberies. He also called on insurers to compensate traders as soon as possible and announced a “postponement of the payment of contributions and taxes” for all affected employers.
As for the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmaninhe condemned the shooting of a group of policemen and announced that he would remobilize 45,000 policemen and gendarmes, especially in Lyon and Marseille, the cities that suffered the most in recent days.
Nahel’s burial
As France prepares for a fifth night of riots, Nahel was buried this Saturday in Nanterre at “very tense” environment, claim the present journalists who stayed away, just like the political figures. Lawyers for the young man’s family issued a statement asking journalists not to attend the funeral to avoid any “media interference” and out of respect for the family.
Only friends, a few dozen young people, managed to go to the funeral home, while Nanterre residents who knew the family and wanted to attend to support Nahel’s mother gathered outside. Eight people carried the white coffin on their shoulders to the Ibn Badis Mosque, where a ceremony was held before the burial at the Mont-Valérien cemetery.
Source: La Vozde Galicia
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