French President Emmanuel Macron urged parents Friday to keep teenagers at home to quell rioting spreading across France.
A protester runs through tear gas during clashes that broke out after a commemoration march for a teenage driver shot dead by a policeman, in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre on June 29, 2023.
“There’s a feeling of injustice in many residents’ minds, whether it’s about school achievement, getting a job, access to culture, housing and other life issues,” Jarry said. “I believe we are in that moment when we need to face the urgency .” France’s national police agency said nearly half of the 875 people who have been detained were from the Paris region. Dozens of towns and cities across France also had rioting. The unrest extended as far as Belgium’s capital, Brussels, where about a dozen people were detained and several fires were brought under control.
The shooting, captured on video, shocked France and stirred up long-simmering tensions between police and young people in housing projects and other disadvantaged neighbourhoods.Article content “A police officer cannot take his gun and fire at our children, take our children’s lives,” she said.Article content
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