A total of 95 people were arrested during the riots that devastated Marseille during the night from Friday to Saturday. Since the death of the young Nahel, shot dead by police on Tuesday in Nanterre, various scenes of violence of this type have broken out in Paris, Lyon, Dijon, Nantes and Toulouse. Stores, like transportation infrastructure, have paid the price.
The extension of sales to help merchants
Various ideas for measures were put forward: Philippe Korcia, president of the Bouches-du-Rhône union, for example, mentioned the establishment in Marseille of a curfew at 8:00 p.m. and the end of public transport from 6:00 p.m. The latter even hopes to see the gendarmerie deploy armored vehicles in the city to prevent “businessmen from fighting back.”
If the Marseille city council did not express itself on the issue of maintaining security in the city center, a press release was nevertheless published to ask the State for “exceptional aid for merchants”. The solution devised by Mayor Benoit Payan: ask the Prime Minister for “an exceptional extension of the sales period, as well as the establishment of an emergency fund for companies.”
Sales started on June 28 and should normally end on July 25. This extension of the rebates can be a way of encouraging consumption and therefore increasing the turnover of merchants for a longer period of time.
Source: BFM TV
