National police said on Thursday night that its forces faced new incidents in the cities of Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse and Lille including fires and protesters hurling fireworks, as some 40,000 police officers deployed across the country to contain the unrest in the wake of the killing of 17-year-old Nahel M, who was shot dead on Tuesday.
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French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a new government emergency meeting later on Friday after riots erupted for the third night in a row across the country in protest over the deadly shooting of a teen by police earlier in the week, reported BFM TV, citing the Elysee palace.
ReplyDeleteThe meeting will take place at 1100 GMT on Friday, added BFM TV.
The number of people detained during the unrest in France early on Friday has reached 421, the BFM television channel reported on Friday citing a source close to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.
ReplyDeleteThe head of the French Interior Ministry announced the detention of 667 people overnight as a result of protests in the country
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