Tension has fallen in neighborhoods, less damage



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Police in the Breil district in Nantes – S. Salom Gomis / AFP

Night of appeasement in Nantes. Relative calm prevailed in the city's neighborhoods in the night from Saturday to Sunday with only a few vehicles burned after several nights of violence that followed
the death of a young man, killed by a police officer during a check on Tuesday night

This death provoked four consecutive nights of urban violence in the so-called "sensitive" neighborhoods of Nantes.
The night from Friday to Saturday had been calmer than the previous ones, according to the police, who counted 35 vehicles burned over the entire agglomeration, including Saint-Herblain, Orvault, Rezé and the neighborhoods of Nantes Breil and Bellevue.

The previous nights, more than fifty cars but also public buildings and businesses were set on fire by mobile groups armed with Molotov badtails.

Only 18 cars burned and a construction machine

the night from Saturday to Sunday, the situation was much less tense than in recent days. Only at 5 o'clock was reported 18 cars burned, plus a construction machine, as well as some identity checks, but no injuries, according to police who raised the device at dawn.

On Saturday, the family of young man killed by the CRS announced that it would be a civil party from Monday. For now, "they want us to leave them alone, with their tragedy," said Loïc Bourgeois, lawyer for the mother and sister of
Aboubakar Fofana, aged 22, from Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d'Oise)

The shooting officer was indicted on Friday for "deliberate badault and battery leading to death without intent to give it And released under judicial supervision, in accordance with the requisitions of the public prosecutor of Nantes Pierre Sennès

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