Hundreds of arrests in various cities, confirmed by the French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, during the protests that followed the killing of a seventeen year old by the police in Nanterre.

During the night Darmanin visited Mantes-la-Jolie, in the Parisian banlieue, scene of violent clashes and where the town hall was set on fire. "It is the Republic that will win," said the minister according to Le Figaro. "I don't confuse the few thousand delinquents - he added - with the vast majority of our compatriots who live in popular neighborhoods".

Clashes between the police and young people took place in Vénissieux and in Villeurbanne, on the outskirts of Lyon. Looting was reported in the center of Grenoble and Saint-Etienne where clothing, optical and telephone shops, as well as jewelery shops were targeted. In Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis), in the Parisian banlieue, about one hundred young people gathered in the evening in front of the Conforama furniture store to loot it and the police carried out several charges to disperse them. Numerous thefts by rioters have been reported.

In short, the revolt does not subside and is unleashed against all the symbols of the state: prisons, barracks, town halls, police stations, exacerbated after the spread of the news of the death of a 20-year-old who fell from the roof of a supermarket in Rouen.

President Emmanuel Macron has not declared a state of emergency, as many expected, but has addressed the families of minors participating in the violence, asking them to keep the very young at home.

Meanwhile, the government has ordered the use of armored vehicles, canceled concerts, public events, neighborhood and school parties, and shortened bus and tram runs to 9pm.

The anger over the death of 17-year-old Nahel at the hands of a policeman who shot him at point blank range and without any motivation in self-defense does not seem to have any limits.

(Unioneonline/ss)