Towards a return to calm. The police arrested 72 people in France on the night of Monday July 3 to Tuesday July 4, against 157 the previous night, the Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday morning. This brings to 3,486 the number of arrests since the start of the urban violence. According to these same figures, 159 vehicles were set on fire, 24 buildings degraded and four police, gendarmerie or municipal police premises targeted. The night system of the previous days, i.e. a maximum staff of 45,000 police and gendarmes, had been maintained. Follow our live.
Emmanuel Macron receives the mayors. The Head of State is due to receive the mayors of some 220 municipalities on Tuesday “victims of abuse” Through the whole Country. With this consultation of local elected officials, the President “wishes to begin a meticulous and longer-term work to understand in depth the reasons that led to these events”, informed the Elysée.
The president went to a barracks. For his first trip since the start of the crisis, Emmanuel Macron went in the middle of the evening with the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, to the Bessières barracks, in the 17th arrondissement of the capital, which hosts the staff of the BAC (anti-crime brigade) at night and departmental intervention companies. In the process, he went to the Paris police headquarters for new exchanges, said the Elysée. Later in the night, the Head of State thanked the police, gendarmes and firefighters in a tweet for their “exceptional mobilization in recent nights”.
Damage estimated at 1 billion euros. The main French employers’ organizations called on the government on Monday to put in place support measures for affected traders and entrepreneurs, in particular a “emergency fund” For “those who have lost everything”. The damage is estimated by the boss of bosses, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, at one billion euros.