Paris (EFE).- At least 72 people were arrested in the seventh consecutive night of riots in France, which registered fewer episodes of violence, in a trend that has been confirmed since the weekend.
The arrest figures for the night from Monday to Tuesday communicated by the Government, which has not indicated serious incidents for the moment, are clearly lower than the 157 of the previous one and the 400 in the one from Saturday to Sunday.
There were also 159 cars set on fire, 24 public buildings damaged by attacks by rioters, as well as four police stations or barracks of the forces of order, which continued at the same level of mobilization, with 45,000 police officers and gendarmes deployed.
Macron receives the mayors
The president, Emmanuel Macron, receives this morning at the Élysée Palace more than 200 mayors of towns that have registered riots that, according to the employers’ association Medef, have already had an estimated cost of more than 1,000 million euros, with more than 200 shops totally looted and 300 bank branches destroyed, in addition to 250 tobacconists.
The employers have not included in this assessment the impact that this social outbreak may have for the image of France and for tourism, triggered by the death on the 27th of a 17-year-old boy shot by a policeman while trying to skip a control behind the wheel of a car for which he did not have a license.
Macron, who last night visited several fire stations in Paris, which are on the front line of the riots to put out fires generated by the rioters, alluded to the possibility of financially sanctioning the families of minors responsible for violence, in what is understood as A reference to social benefits.
According to the newspaper Le Parisien, the head of state said that “with the first infraction, families should be easily penalized” with “a kind of minimum fee from the first nonsense.”
The Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, for her part, also received the heads of the majority parliamentary groups in the morning, after having done so yesterday with those of the opposition.