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One hundred and fifty people were arrested on the night from Wednesday to Thursday in France in riots following the death of a teenager shot by a police officerannounced the French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
The minister denounced in a tweet “unbearable violence against symbols of the Republic” and criticized those who did not call for calm.
“City halls, schools and police stations” were “set on fire or attacked”wrote the minister on his Twitter account.
“Shame on those who did not call for calm”added Darmanin.
A bus was also set on fire in Grigny, according to a source.
Likewise, a fire was registered in a school in Tourcoing and in a school in Halluin (north).
An Evreux school was also the target of a “fire start”, according to the source.
In Rouen a fire broke out in a local police station. The Elbeuf police station was “attacked” and damaged, and mortars were fired at the Trappes police station, according to the source.
Great police deployment
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.
“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.”
Source: Elcomercio
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