Riots in France, 677 people arrested

SGGPO June 30, 2023 17:06

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on June 30 that 667 people were arrested overnight in France, after riots broke out for the third consecutive night across the country to protest the police shooting of a teenager earlier this week.

France has deployed 40,000 police in an effort to quell the widespread unrest. Of those arrested, 307 were in the Paris metropolitan area.

"A night of completely unacceptable violence against the symbol of the republic, with town halls, schools and police being attacked or set on fire," Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter.

Vehicles burned during riots. Photo: Reuters

Protests and riots have broken out and occurred continuously over the past 3 days, after the police shot and killed a 17-year-old boy named Nahel on the morning of June 27 for not obeying police orders while participating in traffic.

The wave of violent protests continued to spread, despite the prosecutor's announcement that the police officer who opened fire had been brought to court and was being investigated for murder.

Photo: Reuters

Videos on social media showed fires across France, including at a bus station in a northern suburb of Paris and a tram station in Lyon. Tram and bus services in the capital were suspended after 9 p.m. local time on Friday. But the measures, along with tighter security, appeared to have had little effect in stemming the unrest. Nearly 250 riot police and gendarmes were injured in efforts to quell the unrest.

President Emmanuel Macron plans to leave the European Union (EU) Summit in Brussels (Belgium) to return to France and hold an emergency security meeting on the evening of June 30. Previously, President Macron called for calm, and declared that the police shooting of the young man was unjustifiable and unforgivable.

Police deployed during the riot. Photo: Reuters

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