Paris (EFE).- Despite the decrease in the intensity of the riots verified last night, the Government has once again ordered the deployment of an extensive security contingent made up of 45,000 agents, in a day that has been marked by outrage at the attack on the family of a mayor.
“Tonight, for the third night in a row, 45,000 police officers are mobilized throughout France to ensure a lasting return to public order.
The mobilization of the internal security forces continues.
It does not decay ”, transmitted the French Ministry of the Interior via Twitter.
At least 719 people were arrested and 45 police officers were injured
Over the past night, at least 719 people were arrested, 45 police officers were injured, there were 871 fires on public roads and damage to 74 buildings, according to the French authorities.
Despite the still bulky figures, the Ministry of the Interior has confirmed that the last night was “quieter” than the previous ones.
The previous one – in which the authorities had already verified a decrease in the intensity of the incidents compared to the previous days – had left a total of 1,311 arrests, 79 police officers injured and more than double the number of fires in the streets and vandalized buildings than the previous ones. reported this morning.
President Macron led a meeting at the Elysée
In parallel to the security deployment for the night, President Emmanuel Macron led a meeting at the Elysée to which the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, and several of her ministers were summoned.
According to sources from the Presidency, the purpose of the call was to make a detailed assessment of the current situation, both at the security and judicial level and the economic impact of the riots.
Likewise, some of the Government’s plans for the coming days were discussed, the details of which were disclosed to the press, although neither the head of state nor the ministers made public statements after the meeting.
On the one hand, Macron plans to meet this Monday with the presidents of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, and of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and, on the other, on Tuesday he will receive just over two hundred mayors of municipalities affected by the riots, according to the BFM TV channel.
Outrage over an attack on a mayor’s family
What did cause a great commotion today was an incident that occurred in the context of the riots in L’Haÿ-les-Roses, on the southern outskirts of Paris.
There, the mayor, Vincent Jeanbrun, suffered an attack on his family residence at dawn.
While he was working at City Hall, individuals wanted for attempted murder threw a burning car into the house, where his children, ages 5 and 7, and his wife were.
One of the children had to be treated for injuries, like the mother, with a broken leg.
“I have no words strong enough to describe my shock at the horror of tonight.
But the only way to make the unacceptable acceptable is for it not to be at all,” the mayor said in a statement early in the morning.
This episode provoked strong social indignation and the outright condemnation of the French political class.
“We will be next to the mayors”, stressed the prime minister
“We will not let anything go. We will be next to the mayors, ”the French Prime Minister stressed this afternoon while she visited L’Haÿ-les-Roses.
In repudiation of this episode, the Association of Mayors of France has called for rallies to be held in front of all the municipal headquarters in the country this Monday at noon.
The trigger for this wave of riots was the death of a 17-year-old young man of Arab descent named Nahel, who was fatally shot by a police officer as he tried to flee a police checkpoint in Nanterre on the 27th.
The images of the incident, recorded by witnesses, sparked strong indignation in the country, which degenerated into riots, especially in the popular neighborhoods of large cities and in the metropolitan area of Paris.
The minor’s grandmother asked that they stop using her grandson as a “pretext” to sow violence.
This Sunday, in statements to the BFM television channel, the minor’s grandmother, Nadia, asked the rioters to stop using her grandson as a “pretext” to sow violence.
“I want the policeman who killed my grandson, that’s all I want.
The police are there, happily they are there, and to the people who are destroying, I tell them: stop,” stressed the grandmother of the deceased, identified as Nadia, who assured that she trusts justice.