Over 400 Violent Protesters Detained In France: Interior Minister
Gerald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, said that police detained 427 rioters overnight between Saturday and Sunday.
“The night was calmer owing to decisive actions of police that made 427 detentions from the start of the evening,” the minister wrote on his account on Twitter.
Forty-five thousand police officers and gendarmes would be on duty just as the night before, Darmanin said earlier.
As the country faced a sixth consecutive night of upheaval, the grandmother of the French youngster killed by police during a traffic stop called with rioters to cease on Sunday. Meanwhile, authorities voiced indignation over the burning car thrown at a mayor’s home, injuring family members.
“Do not break windows, buses, or schools,” Nahel’s unnamed grandma, who is 17 years old, warned in a phone interview with French news outlet BFM TV. We want to calm the situation down.
As France experienced its greatest social unrest in years, she said she was outraged at the officer who killed her grandson but not at the police in general and expressed faith in the legal system. Her grandchild, who was only identified by his first name, was buried on Saturday.
Following a massive security deployment intended to contain the biggest social unrest in France in years, police made 719 arrests across the country as of early Sunday.
The crisis uncovered a long-standing grievance about discrimination and opportunity gaps in low-income neighbourhoods and presented President Emmanuel Macron with a fresh leadership challenge.
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