At least 150 people were arrested this morning on the second night of Riots in France over the death at the hands of the Police of a black teenager 17 years old in the city of Nanterre, on the outskirts of Paris.
“A night of intolerable violence against the symbols of the Republic: town halls, schools and police stations set on fire or attacked. 150 people detained”, he wrote briefly this morning on his Twitter account on French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
The death of the young Naël by the shots of a police officer who claimed to have used his weapon in self-defense – a version denied by the video images of the event – had already generated riots the night before in which there were thirty detainees, forty vehicles on fire and 24 police officers injured.
In his message on Twitter, the French Interior Minister called for “support for the police, gendarmes and firefighters who bravely faced the attack” by the perpetrators of the riots, and complained about those who are egging them on. “Shame on those who did not call for calm,” he added.
On Wednesday, after the first night of violent incidents, concentrated above all in Nanterre and other cities on the outskirts of Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron and several members of his cabinet called for calm and expressed their solidarity with the del Naël family, stressing that his death is “inexplicable and inexcusable.”
Naël, a young black man who on Tuesday morning he was driving a rental yellow Mercedes sports car without a permit through the streets of Nanterre, he was stopped by a couple of police motorcyclists, one of whom, according to a video recorded by a witness, He shoots him point-blank out of the driver’s window. as soon as the young man starts the vehicle to flee, although he did not threaten the integrity of either of the two agents.
Source: Lasexta

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