This has been said by the French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin 917 people were arrested in Thursday’s protests against Nahel’s deatha 17-year-old Algerian who was killed by a police officer in the French city of Nanterre.

Darmanin has announced that some 45,000 police officers and gendarmes will be deployed on Friday night to combat violence. Likewise, it has again put on the table the possibility of declaring a state of emergency in the country.

“In 50 years, we have used the state of emergency four times. President (Jacques) Chirac used it after 10 days of rioting,” he stressed during an interview on the network TF1 info. the official He said that “no measure is ruled out”.

“These next few hours will be critical,” he declared, addressing law enforcement and firefighters. France “is facing riots of unusual violence,” he added.

That is also what Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne said “all options” would be studied, including the state of emergency.

For the time being, the government has opted to increase the number of officers and to authorize the deployment of armored vehicles of the Gendarmerie, a military agency that has powers in public security, especially in rural areas.

The government reported that 249 officers were injured, as well as attacking 492 buildings and setting fire to 2,000 vehicles.

On the other hand, Darmanin referred to the beating of two police officers who were off duty in the early morning. “They were beaten to the ground like dogs,” he denounced.

Meanwhile, riots continue in several parts of France, especially in the Place de la Concorde in Paris, where a security apparatus is closely monitoring the protesters’ actions, the paper said. le Paris.

Security forces have had to disperse crowds in central Lyon after several protesters gathered in recent days to protest police brutality. They fired fireworks at the police.

The same situation is happening in Marseille, where a group of people looted a Sephora branded store as part of the riots, while dozens of protesters also entered an Apple store in Strasbourg.

On the other hand, a young man in his 20s died after falling from the roof of a shop in Petit-Quevilly, in the Seine-Maritime department, in the context of riots in the city, the newspaper has collected. Le Figaro.

Nahel’s funeral will take place on Saturday, Nanterre mayor Patrick Jarry announced.

That is what Mounia, the mother of the victim, told the chain French 5 that she did not blame the police, but only the officer who had taken her son’s life.