According to Le Parisien, quoted by the BBC, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo will hold a city unity meeting at 09:00. The French capital was hit hard by last night’s looting and unrest, and public transport is disrupted this morning.
French President Emmanuel Macron will chair a new meeting of the inter-ministerial crisis unit at 1 p.m. in Paris for the second time in two days after violence broke out for the third time in France following the death of a teenager killed by a police agent. The Elysee announced it. The Head of State, who has been in Brussels since yesterday for a European summit, may therefore have to shorten his stay and return earlier if work in the capital of the European institutions does not close in time. He was due to hold a press conference before leaving the EU Council.
Last night, 667 people were arrested across France. The French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced in a tweet.
The French Interior Ministry announced that 249 police officers and gendarmes were injured in last night’s riots.
Unrest also in central Paris as part of protests over the death of Nahel, the young man killed by a police officer in Nanterre. At least a hundred people wearing balaclavas looted the shops of the Les Halles shopping center in the center of the capital tonight. The Nike store in particular suffered serious damage. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced that “systematic intervention instructions have been given to the police, who have already made more than 100 arrests”.
The police officer who killed 17-year-old Nahel two days ago in Nanterre with a shot from his service weapon is “devastated” and asks the young man for “forgiveness”. The now-detained agent’s lawyer, Laurent-Franck Lienard, told BFM TV. “He – added the lawyer – doesn’t get up in the morning to kill people. He didn’t want to kill.”
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