On the night of the French national holiday, between Friday and Saturday, at least 96 people were arrested and 255 vehicles were set on fire in several clashes.
Despite the incidents, the Efe agency reports, the number of incidents this year has decreased by 40% compared to last year.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin pointed this Saturday on his Twitter account, still with provisional figures, to the “considerable decrease” in material damage, attributing it “to the security forces, their presence and the numerous preventive controls”. executed”.
Faced with the risk of another riot, identical to the one that broke out a week after the death on the 27th of a young man in the city of Nanterre by a police shot, Darmanin decided on a massive mobilization of officers for the 14th national holiday July.
A total of 45,000 police officers took to the streets the night before and on July 14, with seven officers injured, a lower number than in 2022, when 21 police officers were injured.
There were 51 episodes where pyrotechnics were used against law enforcement, compared to 333 a year ago.
Since June 27 and the start of the disturbances in sensitive neighborhoods of many French cities, police have seized about 165,000 mortars, the most feared pyrotechnics in these attacks.
The July 14 festivities traditionally end with fireworks. The most popular are those of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, which tens of thousands of people in the area have witnessed on the streets.
In the capital and in the immediate vicinity, 10,000 security forces officers were mobilized.
Source: DN
