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Despite the call for calm launched by the authorities, Nantes has experienced a new episode of urban violence in the night from Wednesday to Thursday. Several public buildings, including a library and a police station, have been degraded. Shops were also burned. According to Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, 19 people were arrested, and 11 of them were still in custody Thursday morning. Tuesday night, the death of a 22-year-old killed by a police officer during a check in the Breil neighborhood had provoked a strong reaction in several parts of the city. About thirty cars and twenty buildings and buildings, including a town hall annex and two shopping centers, were then burned or degraded.
Edouard Philippe promises transparency on the circumstances of death
This Thursday, the Prime Minister Minister Edouard Philippe went to Nantes. If his visit was initially scheduled to develop an action plan for the West, he took the opportunity to meet the mayor of the city PS Johanna Rolland, with whom he discussed the situation of neighborhoods. At a joint press point after the meeting, Edouard Phillipe strongly condemned the violence and promised to "adapt the level of forces present to guarantee order."
To #Nantes to talk with @Johanna_Rolland on the violence of the last nights and take stock of the future after Notre-Dame-des-Landes. pic.twitter.com/1X7QzsYQKQ
– Edouard Philippe (@EPhilippePM) 5 July 2018
Additional reinforcements "in a hurry" are a "positive news", "but in the long run , the question is what means are given to the investigative police "to fight against" the traffic of arms, the great delinquency ", commented Johanna Rolland, evoking a problem" structural ". "For the future, we should work even more together to ensure that it is a confident future that we build in the neighborhoods," the prime minister replied echoing.
The head of government also promised "the greater transparency about the circumstances "of the death of the 22-year-old man. According to the public prosecutor of Nantes, the man killed, was under the arrest warrant for "organized robbery, concealment and criminal badociation". He allegedly attempted to escape by backing up during a police check. The policeman then fired once on the vehicle reaching the individual neck ..
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D ' after a source close to the investigation the driver reportedly tried to "run away on a police officer", which the prosecutor did not confirm. This version is even contradicted by several inhabitants of the district to AFP. According to a woman who filmed the scene but wishes to remain anonymous, there was "no CRS behind the car, he did not crush anyone, there was only one shot". Another person badures that he "was at a standstill" and "gave his papers."
Laurent Wauquiez asks to respect the presumption of innocence for the police
Earlier in the morning, two officials of the opposition spoke on this matter. France's deputy insubordinate Alexis Corbière called for "additional means" for the police and that its methods of work are reviewed to restore "confidence with the population".
Republican President Laurent Wauquiez landed on Cnews in defense of the police: "I, between a side a criminal, pursued for drug trafficking, and the other side the forces police, I ask that the presumption of innocence be on the side of the police ". He also criticized the government for "doing nothing for a year" to give the police the additional means they needed.
(with AFP)
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