France will deploy 40 thousand policemen to stop the raging violence

The French government vowed on Thursday to contain the violence that broke out after a police officer shot a 17-year-old boy, announcing it would deploy thousands of officers and crack down on areas where buildings and vehicles were set on fire. given. The ministers visited areas affected by the sudden outbreak of violence and appealed for calm, but warned that incidents of violence would be dealt with sternly. Several policemen have been injured in the violence and around 100 public buildings have been damaged. The protesters also set several vehicles on fire. After Paris, violence broke out in some other parts of the country as well. After an emergency meeting in the morning, Interior Minister Gerald Dermanin said the police force would be more than quadrupled and up to 40,000 policemen would be deployed.

He said that in the Paris region alone, the number of officers deployed would more than double to 5,000. Protesters angry over the teen’s killing continued to demonstrate in the suburbs of Paris throughout the night. They set cars and government buildings on fire. Unrest also spread to several other French cities and towns, despite security efforts and calls for calm from the president. A video of the murder of 17-year-old Nahel during a traffic check on Tuesday has also surfaced. This incident has shaken the country and people are very angry. Nanterre prosecutor Pascal Prache said that based on a preliminary investigation, he concluded that the conditions for the legal use of the weapon were not met. Nahel’s surname has not been released by authorities or his family. In earlier statements, the family’s lawyers spelled out the name ‘Nael’.Clashes first broke out on Tuesday night in and around the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where Nahel was killed. The government deployed 2,000 policemen to maintain order on Wednesday but violence resumed after dusk.

According to a spokesman for the national police, police and firefighters struggled to contain protesters and extinguish fires that broke out throughout the night, damaging schools, police stations and town halls or other public buildings. The spokesman said police had arrested 150 people nationwide, more than half of them in the Paris region. French President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency security meeting on Thursday over the violence. These acts are completely unjustified, Macron said at the start of the meeting. In Nanterre, several vehicles were set on fire and stones were pelted at police who responded with tear gas. Macron called the killing unforgivable and called for peace. “The death of any young person cannot be justified in any way,” he told reporters in Marseille on Wednesday.

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