you a noon in the last few minutes, the news agency has been reporting that a young man has died after falling from a roof during the protests, according to information from the police. we will bring you more on that as we get it. meanwhile let s take a look at some images from last night you can see there fire on a road there, and this is just one of 3800 fires on roads across the country, 875 arrests were made, scores of police officers injured too. let sjust made, scores of police officers injured too. let s just look at where the writing is happening here s the map of france, and you can see that the dots there are all locations where it s been happening, and there s a big cluster around paris which is right in the middle there rioting. and if we look at
the social network platforms have played a very conspicuous part in the events in the last couple of days. we have been looking at that. the organisation of violent meetings are convoked by social networks, but it also encourages copycat reactions, and these videos have intoxicated the young people. that was the views of president emmanuel macron, he also referenced the views of the justice emmanuel macron, he also referenced the views of thejustice minister, let s have a listen. translation: nahel s death must not be used as a pretext for violence. - the rioters need to have severe punishments. justice needs to be quick and strong. this includes parents of all minors
taking on the police, you know, mostly kids, to use a euphemism here and france, they talk about race and ethnic minorities, people of what you would say were african and north african dissent. i spoke at some of those kids, who were quite young, 13-15 those kids, who were quite young, 13 15 years old who were engaging with these, throwing things at the police in this sort of cat and mouse game with law enforcement in the centre of marseilles, and i asked them what they were doing there, and they told me that it could ve been any of us, referring to the killing of nahel, the 17 year old killed by a police officer in nanterre that set off this chain of events and the riots, they said something to the effect of this is the last time this should happen. we will see things carry on through the evening, it s certainly not a good ambience in downtown marseilles where you have this cat and mouse game, lots of businesses closing down early, you have tear gas wafting through my apartment window
now for example, that building you can see now for example, that building you can see behind me is an office building. can see behind me is an office building, about 500 people work there building, about 500 people work there it building, about 500 people work there. it is a very important part of this there. it is a very important part of this community. last night about 60 people got there and set fire you might 60 people got there and set fire you might still be able to see the smoke you might still be able to see the smoke coming out, we can still smell it. smoke coming out, we can still smell it and smoke coming out, we can still smell it and all smoke coming out, we can still smell it. and all the people who used to work it. and all the people who used to work there it. and all the people who used to work there lost their belongings and computers. right across me is a pharmacy computers. right across me is a pharmacy which is also a health centre. pharma