Gérald Darmanin announces that “45,000” police and gendarmes will be mobilized on the night of Friday June 30 to Saturday July 1. “We arrested 917 rioters yesterday, it’s huge. Their average age is 17, and we arrested some who were 13,” detailed the Minister of the Interior, who mentions “a few hundred offenders who must be arrested”. This live is now over.
Nahel’s funeral will be held on Saturday in Nanterre. This was announced by the mayor of the commune of Hauts-de-Seine. “We must continue to surround this family, this mother who will bury her child tomorrow”said Patrick Jarry to the press after a meeting at Matignon, without giving further details.
A man killed in Cayenne. A man in his fifties, who was on his balcony in this city of Guyana, was killed on Thursday evening by a “lost bullet” who came “rioters”. “As the police forces were withdrawing, a shot was fired in the direction of the police”, said the public prosecutor of Cayenne. The man “was shot in the chest and died some time later”.
No buses and trams after 9 p.m. throughout the territory. After a third night of riots in reaction to the death of Nahel, the Minister of the Interior asks the prefects to stop the circulation of buses and trams after 9 p.m. throughout France, franceinfo learned from the ministry on Friday. The latter did not specify the duration of application of this measure. Gérald Darmanin also asked for systematic orders prohibiting the sale and transport of mortars, cans of gasoline, acids, flammable or chemical products.
“Large-scale events” canceled. The government decided to cancel “large-scale events mobilizing personnel and which may present risks to public order depending on local situations”, reports Matignon. For its part, the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis announced on Twitter the cancellation of the performances of Mylène Farmer scheduled for this evening and tomorrow. The last evening of Fnac Live, which was to be held this evening in front of the Hôtel de ville in Paris, has also been canceled, learned France Télévisions.
Nearly 900 arrests. A total of 875 people were arrested overnight from Thursday to Friday in France, including 408 in Paris and its inner suburbs, according to a final report from the Ministry of the Interior. Earlier, the ministry had also announced that 249 police and gendarmes had been injured during the night.