A fundraiser set up for the family of the police officer charged with the killing of Nahel Merzouk in France has raised more than £1.2m, as courts across the country battle to process cases following the recent riots.
PARIS, July 4 Mayors across France held rallies yesterday calling for an end to violent clashes that erupted after a teen was shot dead by police last week, as signs emerged.
Defiant gatherings were held outside town halls across France on Monday following a wave of rioting triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager of north African descent.
was was sparked by the killing of a 17 year old named as nahel during a traffic stop last tuesday. the last two nights have seen fewer arrests than in the days immediately following the incident. but thousands of police officers are still deployed across the country. straight to paris. tom symonds is there for us now. the interior minister has been saying more about the scale of the unrest, what did they have to say? responses from the french government about the last week of unrest and damage on the streets, 3500 arrests, 8000 police injuries. 12,000 bin fires, 1100 buildings damaged. serious unrest here. that likely has stopped, overnight very little going on, some arrests still. we also have in the last hour or two something from emanuel macron, french president, new emergency bill offered to mayors of towns affected
to yesterday, have talked of the need for more law and order, to clamp down on these protests, to stop it happening. but we have also heard, for example, from the mayor of a fairly deprived part of paris where this protest started, following nahel s death at the hands of a police shooting. his view was that we must not forget the need for justice, was that we must not forget the need forjustice, the reason he said for what sparked the protests in the first base. so i think we are going to see some mayors making that point clear, the need for societal change in france to try to prevent the ill feeling and the fractures in society that have happened. but so far, macron s communications with his officials has been very much that this is a protest by individuals, by delinquents as his officials have called them in individual neighbourhoods, not by whole