About 80 people were arrested during the protests in France.
Citing Tass, Figaro newspaper reported on Thursday, citing the Paris police, that at least 77 people were arrested in the Ile de France region of France during the protests and riots of the last two nights.
It is said that these riots took place after the French police shot a 17-year-old teenager in one of the suburbs of Paris.
Riots in France continued for the second night in a row in different parts of the country. Meanwhile, thousands of security forces were deployed in different places to prevent the protests of the protesters.
Protests in France took place after the killing of a 17-year-old teenager by the police, and on Tuesday evening, the people of Paris came to the streets in the peripheral areas of this city to protest the killing of this 17-year-old teenager by the police. These protests continued on Wednesday night despite massive arrests of some protesters by the police.
24 police officers were also injured in the protests.
Trash cans were set on fire in the western suburb of Nanterre, where the shooting took place, as well as other suburbs of Paris as protests continued Wednesday evening.
According to the police, in Esun district, south of the capital, a group of people set fire to the bus after all the passengers got off. In the southern city of Toulouse, several cars were set on fire, according to a police source.
The killing of the 17-year-old French teenager has taken place amid widespread criticism from human rights groups about the behavior of the French security forces towards the citizens of this country, especially ethnic minorities.
On the other hand, French President Emmanuel Macron reacted passively to the killing of a 17-year-old teenager by the police of his country on Wednesday. The president of France described the commission of this crime by the police as “unforgivable” and “unjustifiable”.
The public prosecutor’s office of Nanter region also announced that the murder of this teenager took place during the inspection of a car carrying several people by police forces and that this teenager was killed by direct fire from the police at the scene of the incident, and the shooter is now accused of “involuntary manslaughter” in He is under arrest.
It is said that the published pictures of how this teenager was killed caused the anger of the French people. The demonstration first began with a gathering of people at the police station of Nanterre in the suburbs of Paris and quickly spread to other areas of the city.
After a record 13 deaths from police shootings in France last year (2022), this is the second fatal shooting in such circumstances in 2023.
At least three people were killed by police shootings in 2021 and two in 2020. Official statistics on fatal shootings in 2021 and 2022 show that most victims were black or Arab.
Mornia Lebsi, a resident and anti-racist activist, says that when she spoke with the victim’s family, who she says is of Algerian origin, her mother emphasized that as a mother from Nanter, I feel unsafe for our other children. He said in his words that this event has affected the whole country!
