Elisabeth Borne promises “massive means to protect the French” and announces the ban on the sale, port and transport of firework mortars

“Only the professionals, who will organize the fireworks in the municipalities, will be able to buy them”, specified the Prime Minister in the columns of the “Parisien”.

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The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, on July 6, 2023 in Lisieux (Calvados).  (LOU BENOIST / AFP)

The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, promised, in an interview with Parisian put online on Saturday July 8, “massive means to protect the French” during the weekend of July 14. The sale of fireworks mortars will be prohibited, in order to prevent further violence after those which followed the death of Nahel, killed by a police officer in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine).

A decree published on Sunday will prohibit the “sale”, THE “port” and the “transport of fireworks mortars”, she announces, specifying that “only professionals, who will organize the fireworks in the municipalities, will be able to buy them”.

Asked Friday on franceinfo on the device planned for July 14, Laurent Nuñez, prefect of police of Paris, had assured that in the context, we will be even more vigilant than usual”. “Traditionally, there is always some urban violence”, he added.


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