Paris (EFE) 72 the day before and 157 the night before.
The Department of the Interior also reported 78 burned vehicles and 116 fires in the street caused by the altercations, which were triggered by the death on Tuesday of last week of a minor under the age of 17 by a police shot when he tried to escape from a checkpoint. behind the wheel of a car, without a license.
3,625 arrests for participating in the riots in France
Since then there have been 3,625 arrests for participating in the riots, of which 1,124 correspond to minors. Among the detainees, 990 have already been brought before a magistrate and 380 have entered prison after being tried by the immediate appearance procedure.
Regarding the material damage, together with the several hundred public buildings burned or damaged and the thousands of cars set on fire, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, recalled that more than 1,000 shops, several hundreds of bars-tobacconists and 400 bank branches.
“All this for nothing, destroy for the sake of destroying,” Le Maire was outraged in an interview with the BFMTV channel in which he insisted that this violence “is unspeakable and unjustifiable.”
Council of Ministers to examine measures
The minister explained that in the Council of Ministers this morning measures to “rebuild quickly” will be examined.
This is in line with the announcement made on Tuesday by French President Emmanuel Macron of urgently working on a law for reconstruction.
Le Maire indicated that for people whose car insurance does not cover the fire in riots (from 10 to 15%, according to his calculations) and who have been left without a vehicle, the Victims Guarantee Fund will be activated, from which People with an annual income of less than 26,000 euros may benefit.