Anger over the shooting tapped into decades long complaints about police violence. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS – President Emmanuel Macron of France urgently appealed to parents Friday as the country braced for another night of unrest over
“There is an unacceptable manipulation of a teenager’s death,” said Mr Macron, who had taken the rare step of leaving early from a European Union summit in Brussels to attend the crisis meeting. Several cities, like Strasbourg, experienced sporadic daytime vandalism and looting of stores in their city centers Friday afternoon and evening – a departure from previous days, when the protests were almost exclusively in suburbs. Some protests in Marseille turned particularly violent Friday evening, as rioters overturned and burned cars.Late-night bus and tram services were halted around the country, since public transportation has been targeted over the past days.
“We are going to stop this unrest,” Mr Darmanin told the TF1 television channel, adding that a “vast majority” of residents in the working-class neighborhoods struck by the violence had “nothing to do with several hundred or several thousand delinquents.” The charge under which the officer who fired the fatal shot is being investigated is punishable by up to 30 years in prison. Yet although the initial charge and detention were swift, a quick legal outcome is unlikely.
That leaves open the possibility of an extended period of violent protests, including over the weekend. Mr Patrick Jarry, the mayor of Nanterre, said that Mr Nahel M.’s funeral would be held Saturday. Looming large is the memory of 2005, when the government declared a state of emergency to quell weeks of violent riots after the death of two teenagers fleeing police in Clichy-sous-Bois, an impoverished northeastern suburb of Paris.
Mr Ettazaoui, who is also vice president of an association of urban mayors, said a key issue in disenfranchised urban neighborhoods was the prevalence of families with single parents who often work long hours and struggle to keep an eye on their children, as ubiquitous smartphones and social media apps drive protests like “an accelerant.”
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