It began after the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old who supposedly failed to obey the police. Read more at straitstimes.com.
have started to impact the country’s tourism sector, with hotels and restaurants facing cancellations while some have also suffered damage in the unrest.
“Our establishments are intrinsically hospitality venues, and sometimes even refuges and places of help in crisis situations. They must not suffer the consequences of anger that they have not aroused and we condemn these actions,” he added. The riots “gave rise to real scenes of looting”, he said, with “more than a hundred medium and large food or non-food stores vandalised, looted or even burned”.
The GHR organisation for independent hotels and restaurants in France deplored that “foreign are starting to show images of Paris on fire and blood, which does not correspond to reality”.
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