"Stop, do not destroy." This is the appeal launched by the grandmother of Nahel, the 17-year-old killed last Tuesday by a policeman in Nanterre , on the outskirts of Paris, an episode that has triggered very harsh protests in the capital and many other cities in France .
After days of clashes and violence, which led to over 3,300 arrests and the extraordinary deployment of thousands of agents and gendarmes in the suburbs , the grandmother of the young man shot dead during a checkup invited the protesters, mostly very young, to interrupt the devastation, which culminated in the attack on the home of the mayor of L'Haÿ-les-Roses (in Val-de-Marne) , against which a speeding car was hurled.
«To the people who are destroying everything, I say - the woman, named Nadia, to the microphones of the BFM TV station exhorted - not to break the windows, not to destroy the schools, the buses. Stop, they are mothers taking the bus, there are mothers on the street ».
Meanwhile, the French prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, assured that «the
government will not leave any violence unpunished and that the utmost firmness will be applied in the sanctions".
(Unioneonline/lf)
