French Police detain 16 people in a calmer night of riots

July 5 () –

The French security forces have made 16 arrests for riots on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, a figure lower than that of previous days and which would confirm the appeasement of the protests that broke out more than a week ago due to the death of a 17-year-old teenager. years shot by a policeman during a control in Nanterre, on the outskirts of Paris.

Since the start of the crisis, the Ministry of the Interior has registered 3,651 arrests, although the daily trend is moving downward, after 297 people were arrested on Sunday and on Monday the number dropped to 81. The authorities have also confirmed last night the fire of 78 vehicles – there are already more than 6,000 since the death of the young Nahel – and damage to eight buildings, reports Franceinfo.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced on Tuesday after meeting with mayors of affected towns an “urgency law” with which he wants to speed up the reconstruction work, and although he considered the “peak” of the riots to be over, he opted to be ” very prudent” in terms of the possibility that the tensions have ended completely.

On the other hand, the Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation to clarify the circumstances of the death of a man who lost his life over the weekend during the riots in Marseille, presumably due to the impact of a type of non-lethal projectile used by security forces. security and reserved for certain contexts of violence.