France is on fire again. It is not the first time so far in 2023, a year marked by constant demonstrations and strikes against the controversial pension reform of the Government of Emmanuel Macron. However, this time the spark that has caused the social fire has been the death of a 17-year-old young man of Algerian origin who died after being shot by police in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris.
After two nights of altercations in various areas of the countryThis Thursday afternoon, the white march organized to honor the memory of the minor, Nahel, has again degenerated into violent clashes between protesters and agents.
According to local press reports, as the world either le figaro, the march has passed peacefully to the end. Later, a group of masked youths began to destroy public furniture, such as bus shelters, and to burn containers and cars.
People attend a march in tribute to Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a French police officer during a traffic stop, in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, France.
For their part, the police has fired tear gas and has charged against the protesters when some of them have tried to break through the protection barriers placed near a government building. Some have erected barricades on the roads, launched projectiles at the authorities and looted some establishments.
In the concentration, summoned by nahel’s motherNearly 6,200 people have participated, according to data from the Prefecture (the Government Delegation). In it they have been able to see banners with the slogan “The police kill” and hear the slogan “without justice, there is no peace”. has also been requested resignation on numerous occasions ofhe Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, according to Efe.
[El policía francés que mató al joven magrebí, en prisión preventiva por hacer un mal uso del arma]
The tension in the streets of France is such that the Macron Executive has had to call a crisis meeting this Thursday in which it has decided to take to the streets 40,000 police and gendarmes to try to contain the situation and prevent violence from breaking out again tonight. Likewise, in the Paris region has decided stop after 9:00 p.m. the circulation of all trams and buses. “The state’s response must be extremely firm,” Darmanin said.
The riots, which early Thursday morning left 150 detainees, have revived memories of the 2005 altercations who kept France on edge for three weeks and forced then-President Jacques Chirac to declare the state of emergency.
On that occasion, violence broke out in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois and spread across the country after two young men were electrocuted to death in an electrical substation while hiding from the police.
