(Paris) “Civic” rallies were held on Monday at midday in front of many town halls in France to denounce the current wave of urban violence, which had clearly decreased the previous night.
On Sunday, the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) called for “civic mobilization for a return to republican order”, a few hours after a violent car-ram attack that targeted the home of a mayor of the Paris region and caused general indignation.
L’association a mis l’accent sur « les troubles graves » ciblant depuis le 27 juin, « avec une extrême violence, les symboles républicains que sont les hôtels de ville, les écoles, les bibliothèques, les polices municipales ».
Des émeutes nocturnes ont éclaté le 27 juin, jour de la mort de Nahel, un adolescent de 17 ans tué d’un tir à bout portant par un motard de la police, lors d’un contrôle routier. La scène a été capturée par une vidéo amateur.
Recherché depuis le drame, un passager de la voiture conduite par Nahel — le troisième occupant du véhicule — s’est présenté lundi à l’Inspection générale de la police nationale (IGPN, police des polices) où il était entendu en fin de matinée, a appris l’AFP de source proche du dossier.
Après cinq nuits de violences urbaines, celle de dimanche à lundi a marqué un reflux des violences, avec un nombre d’interpellations (157 contre plus de 1300 dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi) et d’incendies en nette baisse, et sans incident majeur signalé.
PHOTO VALERY HACHE, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Manifestation à Nice, dimanche soir
Le ministre de l’Intérieur Gérald Darmanin qui avait reconduit dimanche un dispositif de 45 000 policiers et gendarmes sur tout le territoire, a estimé lundi que « l’ordre » était « en train d’être rétabli ».
Le président Macron lui a néanmoins demandé de maintenir une « présence massive » sur le terrain pour garantir le « retour au calme ».
De jeunes émeutiers
Le chef de l’État, qui a annulé ce week-end une visite en Allemagne, doit recevoir les présidents des deux chambres du Parlement lundi, puis les maires de plus de 220 communes ciblées par les violences mardi.
Selon ses services, il souhaite que soit mené « un travail minutieux […] to understand in depth the reasons that led to these events” in which very young adolescents are involved.
The average age of those arrested is 17 years old, with sometimes teenagers 12-13 years old, according to the authorities.
Some 60% of those arrested between Tuesday and Sunday were not known to the police.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will receive representatives of all the political groups in Parliament on Monday afternoon.
On Sunday, she assured that the government would not let “any violence pass” and promised “the greatest firmness” in the sanctions, after the attack on the home of the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, Vincent Jeanbrun, absent at the time. but whose wife was injured while fleeing with her two children.
PHOTO STEPHANIE LECOCQ, REUTERS
The mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses Vincent Jeanbrun (right) receives the support of an elected official during a rally organized on Monday.
An investigation was opened for “attempted assassination”.
In the center-east of the country, the municipality of the small town of Charly for its part reported that a device intended “unambiguously” to cause a fire had been found on Sunday at the mayor’s home.
Monday, in particular in support of the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, elected officials, town hall employees and citizens gathered in small groups all over France: 100 people in Nanterre, 200 in Toulouse (South-West), 300 in Brest (North-West) or Mons-en-Barœul (North).
“Since Tuesday the nights have been difficult for the inhabitants […] The violence that has followed one another is unacceptable, ”launched the mayor of Nanterre Patrick Jarry during the rally.
appeasement
“The time is calm,” insisted the city councilor, welcoming a call for calm on Sunday from Nahel’s grandmother, Nadia, who urged the rioters not to break “windows”, “schools” , ” the buses “.
She also asked that the author of the fatal shooting – charged with intentional homicide and imprisoned – pay for his gesture “like everyone else”, ensuring that he had “confidence in justice”.
To support this policeman, “who has done his job and is paying a high price today”, a kitty was launched online by a far-right personality, the former spokesperson for the presidential campaign of Éric Zemmour. , Jean Messiha, provoking indignation on the left. She collected more than a million euros on Monday.
Studied abroad, this wave of violence and the anger of many young inhabitants of working-class neighborhoods recall the riots that shook France for three weeks in 2005, after the death of two teenagers chased by the police and electrocuted after having hidden in an electrical transformer.