Emmanuel Macron, said on Thursday July 6 that “the first response is order, calm and harmony” after the riots. “We have all experienced an important moment in the life of the nation, so we will continue to work”declared the Head of State in Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) where he met elected officials. “The answer to what we have just experienced is to succeed (…) so that each and everyone in the city does not have the conviction of being an individual like any other, but the depositary of a citizenship greater than him. That’s what was missing during those nights.”, insisted the head of state. Follow our live.
The police officer who shot Nahel held in pre-trial detention. In accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution, the Versailles Court of Appeal decided to keep the police officer who shot Nahel in pre-trial detention, franceinfo learned from the Versailles public prosecutor on Thursday. More than a week after the death of the teenager, a hearing to rule on the continued detention of the policeman took place, following a request for release issued by his lawyer.
Return to calm, after several nights of riots. According to the Ministry of the Interior, twenty people were arrested overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, a figure in sharp decline. A member of the internal security forces was injured and the ministry reported 81 fires or attempted fires on the public highway, 55 vehicle fires and a burned building.
Ten IGPN and IGGN surveys. It’s time to count the number of injured during these riots. As Gérald Darmanin said on Wednesday, the IGPN, the police force, and its counterpart for the gendarmerie, the IGGN, have been seized of ten investigations since the start of the violence which followed the death of Nahel, killed by the police in a road check in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine).
The investigation is progressing into the circumstances of Nahel’s death. The IGPN investigators collected the testimonies of the main protagonists: the two bikers from the public order and traffic department who arrested the car, and the two passengers who were with Nahel. All four gave the investigators their version of the facts during their respective hearings.
Over 3,600 arrests since June 27. According to Gérald Darmanin, heard on Wednesday by the Senate, the youngest arrested “11 years” and the oldest “59 years”. The Minister of the Interior then claimed in a tweet that within a week, “1.5 ton” of firework mortars was seized in the Paris region and “54,000 pyrotechnic devices” in Besancon.