PARIS.
Protesters launched a burning vehicle at the home of Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun, on the fifth night of protests in France, after the death of the young Nahel at the hands of the police.
At the home were the president’s wife and their five- and seven-year-old children.
Jeanbrun, mayor of the town of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, condemned the incident, in which one of the minors and his wife were injured when escaping from the property.
At the time of the incident, the president was coordinating security tasks at the town hall.
“A milestone in horror and ignominy was reached last night. My house was attacked and my family was the victim of an assassination attempt. My determination to protect and serve the Republic is stronger than ever. I am not going to back down,” said the president of the town located 12 kilometers south of Paris.
The prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for “attempted murder” against the mayor of the conservative party Los Republicanos.
In another incident, the Charly mayor’s office in Lyon detected a device intended to cause a fire in the house of the local mayor.
Protests began on the outskirts of the capital on Tuesday after the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old boy, shot dead by a policeman at a checkpoint.
The agent is in preventive detention, and accused of voluntary manslaughter.
In this escalation of protests, according to the Association of Mayors of France, 150 mayors have been attacked.
In an attempt to curb the violence, French municipalities imposed a curfew and prohibited the circulation of buses after 9:00 p.m.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared himself “concerned” about the situation in the country that will host the Olympic Games next year.
So much so that last Friday, the United Nations warned of the “deep” problems of “racism and racial discrimination” among the French security forces.
In the midst of this crisis, President Emmanuel Macron suspended his state visit to Germany.
In this context, tomorrow, the European president will receive the mayors of the towns affected by the riots.
Nahel’s grandmother asks for peace
PARIS.— The grandmother of Nahel, the young man who died at the hands of the police in France, asked that her deceased grandson be stopped as a pretext to sow violence.
“I want the policeman who killed my grandson, that’s all I want. The police are there, happily they are there, and to the people who are destroying, I tell them to stop,” the detainee’s grandmother, identified as Nadia, told the BFM channel.
Through tears, he stressed that his grandson is already dead and that neither the schools, nor the vehicles nor the buses that are being vandalized are to blame.
“I trust justice,” also added the victim’s grandmother, who was 17 years old and of Arab descent.
“Don’t break the windows, don’t destroy the schools, the buses… it’s the mothers who use the bus,” added the woman.
France is experiencing a wave of violence since the publication of the video of the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old boy, who died last Tuesday from a point-blank shot by an agent during a traffic control in Nanterre, near Paris.
Balance of the day
- 45 THOUSAND AGENTS were mobilized throughout France yesterday.
- 49 PEOPLE were arrested for rioting at the protests.
- 577 VEHICLES of different types were set on fire during the marches.
- 45 security elements were injured.