Macron takes armored vehicles to the streets to avoid a new night of violence after the death of Nahel

Nahel’s death a young man of Algerian origin 17-year-old killed by a police officer last Tuesday in the suburb Nanterrewest of Paris, has unleashed a wave of violence in France not seen since 2005. For the third day in a row, protesters have set fire to cars and buildings, and clashes between protesters and security forces have broken out in different cities. from the Gallic country

The tension -like the number of detainees- does not stop increasing, and the measures that the Government has put in place to “calm the situation” they seem not to be working. Neither the deployment of 40,000 police officers, nor the night curfew, nor the blocking of public transport circulation nor the prohibition to demonstrate in some areas have managed to stop the riots. For this reason, President Emmanuel Macron, who was forced to interrupting his visit to Brussels to convene a crisis meeting with his cabinet on two occasions, has decided to go one step further this Friday and take out the Centauro armored vehicles of the gendarmerie, collect the world.

It was the French Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, who announced the deployment of these vehicles, according to the French press. Likewise, Borne has also detailed that “additional mobile forces” will be mobilized and “large-scale events” will be canceled, such as massive concerts, according to the newspaper. le figaro.

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In this way, Macron is fulfilling his promise to adapt the device for maintaining order “no taboos”, although for the moment he has ruled out calling for a state of emergency as President Jacques Chirac did 18 years ago in the face of similar riots. Macron, who this year has already seen his political career in jeopardy on more than one occasion due to the approval of his controversial pension reform, now faces the worst leadership crisis since the yellow vest protests in 2018.

The riots, which began in Nanterre, have now spread throughout the territory, including large cities such as Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg or Lille. “The next few hours will be decisive,” confessed the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmaninwhich, in statements collected by Reuters, has thanked “the impeccable efforts” of firefighters and police officers.