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The French government is going to deploy 40,000 police and gendarmes next night to try to prevent the riots that have taken place in the last two days after the death of a 17-year-old boy shot by an agent in Nanterre, a city on the outskirts from Paris.
“We are going to do everything possible so that order can be restored everywhere.”stressed in an appearance before the press, the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmaninwho explained that the deployment of law enforcement today will be four times more important than last night.
The minister insisted that “The riots have nothing to do with what happened in Nanterre” and that the attacks that took place against the agents last night (170 have been injured, although none seriously) or against public buildings are “absolutely unacceptable.”
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At least 150 people were arrested on the second day of altercations, which also resulted in attacks on 90 public buildings (such as town halls, schools, police stations or courts), many of them set on fire, like dozens of cars.
For Darmanin, behind that there is not a simple spontaneous protest movement for the death of the minor Nahel in Nanterre, but a clear desire to combat the symbols and values of the French Republic.
An idea that was reiterated by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, who stated that “nothing justifies the violence that has occurred tonight and that” attacking symbols of the Republic is absolutely intolerable.”
The Interior Minister said he expected all political leaders to call for calm and warned that “there can be no conditions,” in a message clearly addressed to some of the left-wing opposition leaders, and particularly to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, of the Unsubmissive France (LFI).
Mélenchon has multiplied the messages on Twitter in which he describes the policeman who killed Nahel as a “murderer” and in which he has also charged Darmanin, without naming him directly: “Watchdogs order us to call for calm. We ask for justice.”
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The Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, For his part, he emphasized that “there is an open judicial investigation against a police officer, and not against the police”, and he disqualified “all those who irresponsibly spit on the police and justice, because they are also morally responsible for the exactions that have been committed”.
He also wanted to make it clear that “Justice is not done on television sets or on social networks” or “with fires in the street” and assured that the perpetrators of the riots will be identified and that the Penal Code will be applied to them.
A first litmus test on the continuation and spread of the riots comes this afternoon, with the concentration that the Nahel family has called in front of the prefecture (government delegation) of Nanterre. The mother had called for “a revolt” for her son.
Source: Elcomercio
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