Cars burned for the third night in a row

Anger does not fall. New violence was under way in the night from Thursday to Friday in Nantes for the third night in a row, after the death Tuesday night of a young man killed by a police officer. Several cars were on fire around midnight in the Bellevue district, AFP journalists said. Nevertheless, at 2:00, few clashes were reported.

"Not far from 10 vehicles" were affected by a fire around 00:30, according to a police source, who reported "mobile groups of 20 to 30 people hooded " in the neighborhood. A 14-year-old miner was arrested in possession of a can of gasoline and wicks in the Clos-Toreau district, the police source told AFP, adding that he had been taken into custody.

The policeman in custody

In the early evening, a thousand people had participated in a white march in the Breil district in Nantes to claim "truth" and "justice for Abu", the elderly victim of 22 years old. Residents of this neighborhood had gathered at 6:00 pm in front of 68, rue des Plantes, where the facts took place. "Bavure !!!!" and "Police kills" were written on the wall where the car driven by the young man was embedded after the driver was shot.

The policeman was placed custody Thursday at 12:40 by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) "the head of voluntary violence by a person depositary of public authority causing death without intention to give," announced Thursday in a statement the Public Prosecutor of Nantes Pierre Sennès. "It is only after this measure of custody that the public prosecutor of Nantes will be able to make known its decision on the follow-up to be reserved for this case," he said. 19659003] A few hours after the tragedy, the national police claimed that the police officer had fired in self-defense and that another official had been injured, hit by the car the young man was driving in reverse while attempting to to escape. A version challenged by local residents who claim to have attended the scene.

Philippe demands "the greatest transparency"

Visiting Thursday in Nantes, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe demanded "the greatest transparency" on the circumstances of the young man's death. He also expressed his "strongest condemnation" of the violence. Interior Minister Gérard Collomb has badured him since Marseille that the government would do "everything to calm the situation."

On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, more than forty vehicles were burned in neighborhoods said "Sensitive" of Nantes: the Breil, Bellevue, the Dervallières and Malakoff. Seven public buildings and a dozen shops were also burned. The prefect of Loire-Atlantique, Nicole Klein, went Thursday night in the neighborhoods of Breil and Dervallières to support the police. "I understand grief, but I do not understand the destruction of public property," she told reporters.