Emmanuel Macron will chair a new interministerial crisis cell at 1 p.m. in Paris, for the second time in two days, after a third night of violence in France in the wake of the death of a teenager killed by a police officer, announced the ‘Elysium. The Head of State, who has been in Brussels since Thursday for a European summit, cut short his presence and decided to return before the end of discussions with his counterparts.
Thursday morning, the president had already convened a first crisis meeting with the ministers and directors of administration concerned, in the ad hoc center located at the Ministry of the Interior, before leaving for Brussels. He had denounced “unjustifiable” violence. In the Belgian capital, he had not spoken in public afterwards.
Damage to public buildings, looting and sporadic scuffles again shook many towns in the Paris region and in the provinces overnight from Thursday to Friday, after the indictment on Thursday for intentional homicide of the police officer who killed Nahel on Tuesday in Nanterre, and who was imprisoned. More than 420 people were arrested during this third night of violence when a massive device was deployed by the police.
The President of the Republic left the European Union summit in Brussels on Friday to return to Paris, canceling his press conference in the process. Mr. Macron is waiting for the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior “to make him proposals to further develop and adapt” the law enforcement system, “without taboo”, said a source at the Élysée.
When questioned, Emmanuel Macron denounced “an unacceptable instrumentalization of the death of a teenager” and announced that “additional means” would be deployed by the Minister of the Interior after three nights of urban riots following the death of the young Nahel during a police check in Nanterre.
During the Interministerial Crisis Committee held at the Ministry of the Interior, the Head of State welcomed the “rapid and appropriate” response from the police. He also called “all parents to responsibility” and also asked social networks to “remove” content and identify users linked to this urban violence.
