French rioting appears to slow on 6th night after teen's killing by police in Paris suburb
Crowds gathered at town halls across France Monday to show solidarity with local governments targeted in six nights of unrest touched off by theThe riots, which seemed to be easing overnight into Monday, were driven by a teenage backlash in the suburbs and urban housing projects against a French state that many young people with immigrant roots say routinely discriminates against them.
"We want justice for Nahel and that the calls for an end of the violence expressed by his grandmother and mother be respected," said Jarry, speaking in front of his city hall, which escaped attack. French President Emmanuel Macron, centre, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, left, and Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire attend a government emergency meeting at the emergency crisis centre of the Interior Ministry in Paris, on July 2, 2023 after a 17-year-old whose killing by police has triggered days of rioting and looting across the nation.
The interior minister said the average age of those arrested was 17 and that children as young as 12 or 13 had been detained for attacking law enforcement and setting fires.
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