New scenes of looting and sporadic violence in several cities in France. The night from Friday June 30 to Saturday July 1 was tense, but a little less than the previous ones. Traveling to Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines), the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced, around 2:30 a.m., violence of a “less intensity” with 994 arrests at the national level, according to a provisional report, and pockets of tension in particular in Marseille and Lyon. Follow our live.
An “exceptional” mobilization of the police. Friday afternoon, Gérald Darmanin had announced in the afternoon, at the end of a second interministerial crisis committee in two days, the mobilization “exceptional” of 45,000 police and gendarmes and elite units like the GIGN.
Fewer fires. According to the Interior Ministry, there were 2,560 fires on public roads and 1,350 vehicle fires, as well as 234 fires or damage to buildings, down from the previous night. The ministry also lists 31 attacks on police stations, 16 attacks on municipal police stations and 11 gendarmerie barracks.
Nahel’s funeral scheduled for Saturday. According to an announcement relayed on social networks, the funeral of the young man killed by the shooting of a police officer will take place on Saturday in Nanterre and will conclude with a burial in the early afternoon. “We must continue to surround this family, this mother who will bury her child tomorrow”, said Patrick Jarry, the mayor of Nanterre, where the young man was from. In a statement, lawyers for Nahel’s family urged journalists not to be present at the funeral in order to avoid any “media interference”.