By using this website you agree that we use cookies. You can find out more in the privacy policy.
Bombay Durpun - French mayors hold anti-riot rallies as violence eases
-
-
Choose a language
Automatically close in : 3
Wie gewohnt mit Werbung lesen
Nutzen Sie Bombay Durpun mit personalisierter Werbung, Werbetracking, Nutzungsanalyse und externen Multimedia-Inhalten. Details zu Cookies und Verarbeitungszwecken sowie zu Ihrer jederzeitigen Widerrufsmöglichkeit finden Sie unten, im Cookie-Manager sowie in unserer Datenschutzerklärung.
Use Bombay Durpun with personalised advertising, ad tracking, usage analysis and external multimedia content. Details on cookies and processing purposes as well as your revocation option at any time can be found below, in the cookie manager as well as in our privacy policy.
Utilizar Bombay Durpun con publicidad personalizada, seguimiento de anuncios, análisis de uso y contenido multimedia externo. Los detalles sobre las cookies y los propósitos de procesamiento, así como su opción de revocación en cualquier momento, se pueden encontrar a continuación, en el gestor de cookies, así como en nuestra política de privacidad.
Utilisez le Bombay Durpun avec des publicités personnalisées, un suivi publicitaire, une analyse de l'utilisation et des contenus multimédias externes. Vous trouverez des détails sur les cookies et les objectifs de traitement ainsi que sur votre possibilité de révocation à tout moment ci-dessous, dans le gestionnaire de cookies ainsi que dans notre déclaration de protection des données.
Utilizzare Bombay Durpun con pubblicità personalizzata, tracciamento degli annunci, analisi dell'utilizzo e contenuti multimediali esterni. I dettagli sui cookie e sulle finalità di elaborazione, nonché la possibilità di revocarli in qualsiasi momento, sono riportati di seguito nel Cookie Manager e nella nostra Informativa sulla privacy.
Utilizar o Bombay Durpun com publicidade personalizada, rastreio de anúncios, análise de utilização e conteúdo multimédia externo. Detalhes sobre cookies e fins de processamento, bem como a sua opção de revogação em qualquer altura, podem ser encontrados abaixo, no Gestor de Cookies, bem como na nossa Política de Privacidade.
Mayors across France held rallies Monday calling for an end to the violence that erupted after a teen was shot and killed by police last week, as signs emerged that the unrest was beginning to ease.
Text size:
The government has battled riots and looting since 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead by a police officer during a traffic stop on Tuesday, reviving long-standing accusations of racism against the French police.
Monday's demonstrations calling for a "return to republican order" came after the home of the mayor of a Paris suburb was rammed by a burning car, prompting widespread outrage.
"Democracy itself has been attacked... this can't continue and it won't," said Vincent Jeanbrun, the conservative mayor of L'Hay-les-Roses, whose home was attacked early Sunday.
The interior ministry again deployed 45,000 police and gendarmes nationwide overnight Sunday to Monday to quell the unrest, the same figure as the previous two nights.
They arrested a total of 157 people -- a fraction of the number held the night before. Three police officers were also hurt.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the average age of the 3,200 people arrested since the rioting began was 17, though some were "children, there is no other word, of 12 or 13".
"The nights have been tough for residents since Tuesday," when Nahel was killed, said Patrick Jarry, the mayor of Nanterre just west of Paris where the teen of Algerian origin lived.
"The string of violent episodes is unacceptable," he added, as he called for calm.
All bus and tram services in the Paris region remain suspended from 9 pm (1900 GMT).
But in a move which could spark fresh anger, a collection for the family of the policeman who fired the fatal shot -- now charged with voluntary manslaughter -- topped one million euros ($1.1 million).
Politicians from the ruling centrist party condemned the collection -- organised by a far-right figure -- as "indecent" and dangerous, with hard-left MP Mathilde Panot tweeting that "killing a young North African in France in 2023 can earn you a lot of money."
- 'Threatened with death' -
Mayor Jeanbrun's home was rammed with a burning car, with his wife breaking her leg as she escaped with her children aged five and seven.
The attack was condemned across the spectrum, with prosecutors opening an attempted murder investigation.
"I never would have imagined that my family would be threatened with death," Jeanbrun told French television.
And Nadia, the grandmother of Nahel, said Sunday that rioters were only using his death as a "pretext" and called for calm.
Although the violence appears to be diminishing, questions remain about the event that sparked it.
Investigators on Monday began interviewing a passenger in the car Nahel was driving without a licence, a security source told AFP.
Some also urged that lessons need to be learned from the unrest -- the worst in France since the death of two youths fleeing police in 2005 sparked three weeks of rioting.
"I can't support people smashing and burning things, who would?" said Fatiha Abdouni, 52, founder of a women's association in Nahel's home town Nanterre.
Nevertheless, "now we have to listen to the young people, their frustration and anger," she added.
Youths in Paris' deprived suburbs face "daily difficulties, unequal access to study, to work, to housing," Abdouni said -- needing only the "spark" of Nahel's death to trigger the violence.
Tens of millions of euros in emergency support was meanwhile released to repair public buildings and small businesses around Paris and in two other regions.
- 'Understand the reasons' -
The protests present a fresh crisis for President Emmanuel Macron, who had been hoping to press on with pledges for his second term after seeing off months of demonstrations that erupted in January over raising the retirement age.
He will meet the heads of the two chambers of parliament on Monday, and the mayors of more than 220 towns hit by the unrest on Tuesday, the Elysee said.
The latest unrest has raised concerns abroad, with France hosting the Rugby World Cup in September and the Paris Olympic Games in 2024.
Macron postponed a state visit to Germany that had been scheduled to begin on Sunday in an indication of the gravity of the situation at home.