According to French Interior
Minister Gérald Darmanen, around 150 people were arrested last night in France
for taking part in riots sparked by police in the Nanterre district of Paris on
June 27 when they shot dead a 17-year-old driver.
After a second night of rioting
across the country, 150 people were arrested in France, Darmanin said
Thursday.
The ministry said dozens of
police officers were injured in the clashes. Town halls, schools, and police
stations were destroyed or attacked during this night of intolerable violence
against the republic's symbols. "150 arrests," Darmanin wrote on
Twitter.
Deep-seated notions of police
brutality in the racially varied neighborhoods of France's largest cities have
been exacerbated by the use of fatal force by police against teenage lads of
North African heritage in the working-class Paris suburb of Nanterre.
The Interior Ministry said on
Wednesday that 2,000 police officers were on duty in the Paris area, and
Reuters reported that just before midnight a number of overturned cars caught
fire on Pablo Picasso's Nanterre's Avenue as fireworks exploded along police
lines.
In Lille in the north and
Toulouse in the southwest, police battled demonstrators, according to a police
spokesman, violence also occurred in Amiens, Dijon, and the administrative
region of Essonne south of Paris.
President Emmanuel Macron held a crisis meeting of his cabinet on the phone on Thursday, the presidential office reported.
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