According to French President Emmanuel Macron, in response to the nationwide protest, which is becoming more violent, has said that more security personnel will be dispatched to quell the widespread protests sparked by the police killing of a teenage boy.
As nationwide violent protests, sparked by the police killing of 17-year-old Nahel M, continued for a third night, Macron was forced to leave an EU summit quickly to attend a second emergency crisis meeting in Paris.
On Friday, he presided over the crisis meeting and declared that the interior ministry would use “additional means” to address the unrest.
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Approximately one-third of the 875 people arrested overnight for rioting were “young, or very young,” he said, urging parents to keep their children away from the streets.
He told reporters that it was the duty of parents to keep their children at home. It’s not the state’s responsibility to act on their behalf.”
He urged social media platforms to remove the majority of “sensitive content” in order to stop social media from encouraging copycat violence in the midst of the riots. ”.
Minorities’ long-buried grievances about police brutality and the institutional racism that exists among French law enforcement have been reopened by the fatal shooting.
On Thursday, the bereaved mother of the deceased teen made racial discrimination claims against the policeman who had shot her son. She claimed that the 38-year-old officer, who is currently charged with voluntary homicide, was motivated by racism when he “saw an Arab face” and decided to use lethal force in place of more non-lethal means to stop her son, who was operating the vehicle.
Before the security meeting on Friday, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne had referred to the rioting as “intolerable and inexcusable,” and she had stated that the French government would consider “all options” for reestablishing law and order throughout the nation.
In related news, the United Nations issued a strong warning to France against the use of excessive force by French law enforcement, stating that Paris must address serious racial discrimination problems.
The UN human rights office spokeswoman, Ravina Shamdasani, said at a press conference in Geneva on Friday, “We are concerned by the killing of a 17-year-old of North African descent by police in France on Tuesday.”
“We take note that an investigation into an alleged voluntary homicide has been opened.”
The time is now for the nation to take seriously the serious problems of racism and discrimination in law enforcement.”
