been this severe police crackdown. how do you read the response of the government? do they have these under control? well, i read macron s response in a number of ways. one, as soon as it happened, in the wake of protests after nial was killed, president macron said that what happened was inexcusable. but he also said that it was inexplicable. and that s another example of french authorities pretending as though they don t know why young arab and black youth in particular are being targeted by police. our thanks to crystal phlegming for her analysis there. even as a federal special counsel and a georgia prosecutor investigate donald trump s alleged election meddling, a source tells cnn trump pressurized then arizona governor doug doocy to help overturn his presidential election defeat in that state. the source says trump called doocy after the election
not considered fully french or part of society. so this killing of this 17-year-old boy in a suburb of paris has really tapped into a deeper anger which is common somewhat in terms of disturbances but this deep anger is still there. yet to be addressed. the president, emmanuel macron, has canceled his trip to germany to deal with this crisis at home. do you feel the government seems to have a hold on the situation? well, emmanuel macron is really trying to get a grip on the situation and show that they re in charge. but they re not able to put a lid on these protests now. their greatest fear is that this violence and these scenes of rioting carry on for weeks. back in 2005 when there was a similar outburst across france s suburbs, it went on for more than three weeks. and this kind of anger typically
in france, which is kind of cyclical, we ve seen it several times over the years, is notoriously hard to put down. so the government has said that they could consider introducing a state of emergency with sweeping powers and laws to impose curfews and order people to stay inside. for the moment, they haven t done so. they have said they will deploy some armored vehicles, requisitioned from the french military and various cities, and there are about 40,000 police officers stationed in french towns and cities every night to try to quell the unrest. they re wanting to show they re in control, but yes, emmanuel macron has canceled this two-day state visit to germany. earlier in the year, he had to cancel a state visit by king charles iii of britain because there were protests over pension reforms, not linked to this unrest. but there is a sense that there s this unrest in france, which is very difficult for the authorities to get a grip on.
of people say it actually makes the state just blind to problems of people of color. thanks for the update, we appreciate it. earlier, i spoke about racial tensions in france with crystal fleming, a professor of sociology and african studies at stonybrook university. i asked her if the shooting of nahil mazuk had further inflamed those tensions. let s take a listen. there is a reaction to that, of course. the images are shocking. but it s much bigger than this one killing. in fact, there s been a long history of racist policing in france. the french government itself has released a report a couple of years ago indicating that most of those people who are stopped by police black and arab french people, particularly men and boys are stopped by police 20 times more often than
sparked the protests. let s get more from katherine norris-trent, senior correspondent for france 24. this is a fifth night of protests. i know you ve been on the street, speaking to protesters. do you see the violence abating any time soon? it has been a bit of a calmer night across france than the previous days and nights, gut that s relative. more than 700 people were arrested overnight from saturday to sunday, and there were disturbances in several towns and cities across france with cars and bins set on fire, shops pillages, clashes between protesters and police. so there is still this anger which is boiling over and this sense of desperation for a lot of young people in city suburbs or poorer areas of france who say that they just feel they re ignored by the system, that they re the targets of police brutality in france, and they re