A policeman was injured and fourteen people were arrested Thursday in Marseille during clashes on the sidelines of a rally against police violence organized after the death of young Nahel in Nanterre.
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“We are following the situation in Marseille very carefully with the police headquarters and the Marine firefighters.“, indicates the evening of Thursday June 29 on Twitter Benoît Payan, mayor of Marseille, after excesses occurred during a rally against police violence. The demonstrators demand justice for Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed in Nanterre on Tuesday by the shooting of a policeman during a traffic control.
“Legitimate emotion must be able to express itself peacefully. I call on the Marseillais to be vigilant and calm. Marseille must set an example“, insists Benoît Payan. The prefect of police of Marseille also condemned “firmly these overflows” And “call for calm“.
According to a police source, about 400 people, the majority of whom were young or even very young minors, gathered in front of the prefecture on Thursday before leaving “wandering wildly in the city center, in a very disorganized way“. According to this same source, they defaced a shop window in rue Saint-Ferreol and “tried to set up some barricades and burned some garbage cans“.”The damage is to be put into perspective, apart from the broken window it is mainly burnt bins“, nuances the police source.
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A “important device put in place by the prefect of police, with several units of mobile forces, intervened to disperse them. The security forces were the subject of projectiles, an official was injured and taken to hospital. Fourteen arrests at this stage“. At 9:40 p.m., the group is now made up of 100 to 150 people and continues to walk around. It is gradually dispersed by the police.