of the day s programme. let s turn to the situation in france. to paris now where there have been more calls for calm after almost a week of rioting. crowds gathered in solidarity with one of the mayors of a paris suburb, whose wife and children were forced to flee, after a burning vehicle was targeted at their house. it was calmer on the streets of france last night with around 150 arrests compared with more than 700 the night before but pressure on the government continues. live now to our correspondent tom symonds. monitoring the situation on the ground. and just give us a sense of what it is like there at the moment? we have been places today, firstly non terror, where this outbreak of violence started with the car incident involving the police, and there we saw burnt vehicles, burnt roads,. and then we came here to
with one of the mayors of a paris suburb, whose wife and children were forced to flee, after a burning vehicle was targeted at their house. it was calmer on the streets of france last night with around 150 arrests compared, with more than 700 the night before but pressure on the government continues. live now to our correspondent tom symonds. take us through today s events. that attack on the take us through today s events. twat attack on the mayor of this quite quiet suburb in south eastern paris has led to the town hall there, you can say, being protected by razor wire. that is because vincent jeanbrun, his house was attacked with a car, it was driven at his house. he wasn t there, he was at work. his wife and children were in the house and his wife was injured. today, this afternoon, a lot of people from the town turned out to support him as he walked through, down the streets, outside the town
the regulator received a0 complaints. you re live with bbc news. to paris now where police are bracing for more clashes with protesters tonight. earlier today there were more calls for calm after almost a week of rioting. crowds gathered in solidarity with one of the mayors of a paris suburb, whose wife and children were forced to flee, after a burning vehicle was targeted at their house. it was calmer on the streets of france last night with around 150 arrests compared, with more than 700 the night before but pressure on the government continues. live now to rhokaya diallo, a french writer, journalist & film maker. thank you forjoining us. you have thank you for “oining us. you have written a thank you forjoining us. you have written a column thank you forjoining us. you have written a column in thank you forjoining us. you have
The home of a Paris suburb mayor was ram-raided and set alight while his wife and children were asleep inside during the unrest that has gripped the country following Tuesday's shooting of a teenager by a police officer, the official said on Sunday. Vincent Jeanbrun, mayor of the southern suburb of L'Hay-les-Roses, said his wife and one of their two children, aged five and seven, were injured as they fled the building in the early hours. Jeanbrun, from the conservative Les Republicains party, was not at home but at the town hall during the incident.
so the feeling is that this is just not the right way to demand justice for nahel. is there any sense of any kind of turning point here? clearly, the damage right behind you would suggest no, but the numbers of arrests and incidents are falling slightly from the other nights before. is there anything to read into that? i mean, the interior minister said this morning that the rioting last night was not as bad, as you said, and he thanked the police for being out in force again, more than 16,000 police officers have been deployed across france. but of course, there s still a lot of anger. as you mention, that incident with a mayor of a paris suburb, with people trying to drive a car into his house and trying to set fire to his house.