Relative calm following five nights of heavy riots offered some relief to the government of Emmanuel Macron
Fewer than 160 people were arrested overnight in connection to riots that have rocked cities across France following the killing of a teenager of North African descent by a police officer, the interior ministry said on Monday.
Since he was shot on Tuesday, rioters have torched cars, looted stores and targeted town halls and other properties, with flashpoints in cities including Paris, Strasbourg in the east and Marseille and Nice in the south. Three police officers were injured, the ministry said, while 300 vehicles were damaged by fire, according to provisional figures.
In mid-April, Macron gave himself 100 days to bring reconciliation and unity to a divided country after rolling strikes and sometimes-violent protests over his raising of the retirement age, which he had promised in his election campaign. “We have been going through a state of siege,” Jeanbrun, a member of the centre-right Les Republicains party, told BFM TV on Monday.
And while tensions were still high, some residents said the material damage to vehicle and businesses should stop.
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