French Riots, A 17-year-old boy flees with his car during a police blockade in the Nantry suburb of Paris. The police fired at him which killed him. It is said that many cases were already registered against this Muslim boy named Nahel. Violent protests have been taking place across the country for the last three days against this incident and especially the police are being targeted.
The whole of France is burning after the death of a boy who was shot while running from the police. There are scenes of riots, arson and looting everywhere. To control the situation, 40,000 more policemen have been deployed overnight.
The French Interior Minister has said that this step has been taken to prevent the spread of violence in cities and towns. A large number of police officers have been injured in the violence.Protesters torched cars and public buildings in the suburbs of Paris and violence and arson spread to some other French cities and towns, despite security efforts and calls for calm from the president.
Clashes first broke out in and around Paris on the night of 27 June. The next day the government deployed 2,000 police to maintain order. But after dusk the violence started again. According to a spokesman for the National Police, police and firefighters struggled to control protesters and put out several fires that broke out throughout the night.
Schools, police stations and town halls or other public buildings have come under fire. National police reported fires or clashes overnight in several cities from Toulouse in the south of France to Lille in the north, although the center of tension was Nanterre and other Paris suburbs. The spokesman said police arrested 150 people nationwide, more than half of them in the Paris region. The number of injured was not immediately released.
Several vehicles were set on fire in Nanterre. The fire damaged the town hall in the Paris suburb of L’Île-Saint-Denis, not far from France’s national stadium and the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The scenes of violence in the French suburbs were reminiscent of 2005, when the deaths of 15-year-old Bouna Traore and 17-year-old Zayd Bena sparked three weeks of nationwide riots. The two boys entered an electricity substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois to hide from the police and were electrocuted. French President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency security meeting on 29 June over the violence. He said that these incidents are not acceptable at all.