Emmanuel Macron is ready to "adapt" the rules for maintaining public order in France , inflamed by a real revolt following the death of Nael , the 17-year-old killed by an agent in Nanterre during a police check.
The decisions, the Elysium informs, will be taken "without taboos". A state of emergency is not excluded , even if it was not declared at the end of today's meeting of the crisis unit. The French president, defining the revolt "an unacceptable exploitation of the death of a teenager", announced a greater deployment of police forces in the streets "to contain the violence" .
Macron has launched an appeal "to responsibility for all parents, fathers and mothers of families". "A third of those arrested last night - he said - are young or very young, it is the parents' responsibility to keep them at home ". And he lambasted social networks, which "play a considerable role", underlining that on TikTok and Snapchat "some violent rallies have been organized".
"We will take in the next few hours - he added - various provisions to organize the withdrawal of the most at risk content connected to the platforms and to have the identity of those who use social networks to launch appeals for disorder or exacerbate violence".
Macron left the European summit in Brussels early to address the crisis. The state of emergency has not yet been declared but it is not excluded, it would allow the authorities to adopt exceptional measures such as a ban on driving . It was adopted in November 2005 after 10 days of rioting in the suburbs, triggered by the death of two teenagers, who were electrocuted in an electrical substation where they had been hiding to escape the police.
Last night , 875 people were detained over the riots, half in the Paris Region. There are 492 buildings damaged, 2,000 vehicles set on fire and 3,880 fires .
In the last few hours there have been two more deaths : a young man in Normandy fell from the roof of a supermarket he had stormed, while in French Guiana a man was killed by a stray bullet.
(Unioneonline/L)