The death of young Nahel has consequences as far as Belgium. Since Saturday, municipalities near the French border have decided to temporarily ban the sale of fireworks to prevent rioters from coming to their homes to provide themselves with pyrotechnic equipment.
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They are at the heart of attention in France: fireworks mortars. Since the death of young Nahel on Tuesday, in Nanterre, in fact, the French police have faced young people armed with these pyrotechnic devices used by professionals, which they divert. Clashes thus regularly oppose bands of very mobile young people who fire rains of firework mortars on the police, who respond with tear gas canisters. And that worries our European neighbors.
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Thus, in Tournai, a Belgian city located about thirty kilometers from Lille, fireworks stores have seen their turnover explode in recent days. “We suspect that it is not to prepare for July 14”advances the mayor of the city, Paul-Olivier Delannois, who fears that these articles will be used in violent demonstrations in France.
“Prohibition of sale and transport” of fireworks mortars
The city councilor therefore issued an order prohibiting the sale of this pyrotechnic material to individuals throughout the town, from July 1 to 3. A similar decision was taken in Mouscron, a neighboring town of Tourcoing. This is to align with the northern prefecture, on the other side of the border, which banned the possession and use of all fireworks from June 29. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin had indeed asked the prefects to “systematic issuance of orders prohibiting the sale and transport“firework mortars, petrol cans, acids and flammable and chemical products across France.
It must be said that in Belgium the reactions to the death of the young Nahel are followed closely, because the drama has caused a stir as far as Brussels. On Thursday and Friday evening, the police intervened to disperse several protest rallies in the Belgian capital.
In Germany, too, the violence is scrutinized with a “some concern“, indicated, for example, before the weekend the government spokesman. The press also follows the evolution of the situation, speaking of “the same scenes that are repeated at regular intervals in the precarious French suburbs, as if the country was in a desperate loop from which it could not manage to get out“, observe Die Zeit.