14h53 – Young killed by a policeman: "the greatest transparency" required after a night of violence in Nantes

Prime Minister Édouard Philippe demanded Thursday "the greatest transparency" on the circumstances of the death Tuesday night of a 22-year-old during a police check in Nantes, after a new night of violence in several neighborhoods

On his way to Nantes, Prime Minister Philippe expressed his "strongest condemnation" of the violence, stating that 19 arrests had taken place last night and 11 were being held.

"We will obviously be demanding (…) so that all light is made in the greatest transparency on the circumstances" in which the young man died, he added.

At his side , the mayor (PS) of Nantes Johanna Rolland also called for "the most total transparencies" to allow "the truth to speak."

The Minister of the Interior Gerard Collomb has badured him since Marseille that the government It would do "all to calm the situation in the city and the district: it is our duty to restore tranquility to Nantes, as we wish to do throughout the country."

Four minors are among those arrested. Most were arrested in the Breil district where the young man from Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val d'Oise) was killed.

After a relatively quiet start to the evening on Wednesday in Nantes, vehicles have again were burned in the "sensitive" neighborhoods of Breil, Bellevue, Dervallières and Malakoff. Until 5:00 am, the security forces faced "a few small groups."

Seven public buildings were set on fire, including a library, a neighborhood house, a town hall or a crèche, and a dozen shops. In particular, a pharmacy was destroyed in the Dervallières and more than forty vehicles burned.

A car was also degraded by a Molotov badtail in the yard of the police station in Saint-Herblain, in the suburbs of Nantes. Finally, a CRS was wounded by hand and an impact was observed on the helmet of a county police officer, which could be due to a shooting of 22 Long Rifle, but this policeman was not injured.

Garges-lès-Gonesse, police were targeted with projectiles and Molotov badtails in the night and garbage cans were burned. One person was arrested. In the evening, a march had gathered about 200 people to the police station of Sarcelles, the neighboring town.

– White March –

Thursday morning, firefighters were still at work in the Nantes district of Dervallières under the gaze of the inhabitants

"It hurts, it's too much, it's too much I do not understand", Yamina, the owner of the kebab "Délice marocain", was shocked when she discovered her business and her car burned

"Thirty years that I live in the neighborhood, our young people, we manage to keep them," lamented his brother, Mustapha.

"We burn our neighborhoods, we are already poor. to express in another way that the violence ", affirmed a inhabitant of the district before asking:" It is where the Prime Minister? "

The district was divided between anger towards the young people after the destructions and towards the police which n 'is' never there'

The relatives of the young man killed Tuesday evening called for calm on Wednesday evening by the voice of their lawyer, before a white march scheduled for Thursday at 18:00 in the Breil area.

This march will leave from 68 rue des Plantes where

Under an arrest warrant for "robbery, concealment and criminal conspiracy", the young driver attempted to escape by reversing, according to the public prosecutor of Nantes Pierre Sennès.

A policeman fired once, hitting him on the neck. According to sources close to the investigation, the driver allegedly tried to "flee by backing on a police officer", which the prosecutor did not confirm by refusing to answer any questions.

The lawyer relatives of the victim should speak at the end of the white march to discuss the substance of the case

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