French authorities on Saturday sent extra troops to flashpoint cities to deal with a fifth night of rioting as the 17-year-old whose killing
Police arrested 1,311 people overnight Friday to Saturday, the highest figure since the violent protests began over the point-blank shooting by a policeman of Nahel M. in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters that 45,000 members of the security forces would be deployed overnight Saturday to Sunday — the same number as the night before. But extra forces and equipment had been sent to Lyon, Grenoble and Marseille, which saw the worst rioting the previous night.Numbers would be “considerably reinforced” in these cities “in order to completely restore republican order”, Darmanin said.
The crisis is a hugely unwelcome development for President Emmanuel Macron, who was looking forward to pressing on with his second mandate after seeing off months of protests that erupted in January over raising the pensions age. The German presidency announced that Macron had spoken by telephone with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier “and informed him of the situation in his country”.
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