Towards a calm? On the night of Sunday July 2 to Monday July 3, at 1:30 a.m., the police had carried out 78 arrests throughout France, against more than 400 the previous night, according to the Ministry of the Interior. In addition, no major incidents have been reported. In detail, in Paris and its inner suburbs, 20 people had been arrested at 1 a.m., according to the police headquarters. This violence follows the death of Nahel, who succumbed to the shooting of a police officer during a roadside check on Tuesday in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). Follow our live.
More than 3,000 people taken into custody since Tuesday. A total of 3,000 people have been taken into police custody since the start of the violence on Tuesday evening, 570 have been brought to justice and 260 sent for immediate appearance, according to a judicial source at franceinfo. Justice “will do her best, as she does every time”assured Monday on franceinfo Raphaël Balland, prosecutor of Béziers and president of the National Conference of the prosecutors of the Republic.
The mayors of France are calling for rallies of support in front of town halls this afternoon. The association of mayors of France (AMF) invokes “a civic mobilization” after the violent attack on the home of the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) on the night of Saturday to Sunday. Thus, all the town halls of France will sound their sirens at noon during these gatherings, announced Sunday the president of the AMF, David Lisnard.
The presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate received at the Elysée on Monday. Emmanuel Macron will thus receive Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher. On Tuesday, it will be the turn of the mayors of “more than 220 municipalities victims of abuses” to be received by the Head of State, announced the Elysée on Sunday evening. “The president also asked Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne to receive the presidents of political groups in Parliament on Monday”added the presidency.