Tag: riots
The death of a 17-year-old boy sparked huge riots in France – this is what it’s all about
Journalist Jari Valtee shows and explains in a video what happened and what the protests in France are about. Widespread riots started in France when the police shot dead 17-year-old…
Damage after the riots: what the first figures say
It’s time to take stock. While a lull is emerging after seven nights of riots, Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday July 4 a draft “emergency law” to speed up the…
Riots: the economic toll is already heavy, let’s beware of yet another “suburban plan”
Adam Smith already underlined that, without respected public order, there is no effective freedom. The founder of modern economics wrote in The Wealth of Nations (1776): “The first duty of…
Riots: this “toxic masculinity” that Sandrine Rousseau does not want to see
Usually so quick to track down “toxic masculinity” in the barbecue or a presidential “bottom up”, Sandrine Rousseau was much more lenient about the riots in the neighborhoods. The Green…
Investigators on the French riots: In the suburbs there is “complete anger”, the arrested are very young
Riots in France broke out when police shot dead a 17-year-old boy of Algerian background in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday last week. The reasons for the recent…
Riots: 72 arrests throughout France overnight from Monday to Tuesday
The relative calm seems to be confirmed. The number of arrests fell on Monday evening, as on previous nights: 72 (including 24 in the inner suburbs of Paris), against 157…
One evening of riots in Bobigny: “We fled the violence in the bled and now we see it here”
It is 11 p.m., in front of the town hall of Bobigny, in Seine-Saint-Denis. The Zam Zam (“pure water of Makkah”) restaurant is illuminated. Young people hang out next to…
Riots: what Macron has in mind
When Emmanuel Macron wanted to close the parenthesis of the yellow vests with a televised address, on April 15, 2019, Notre-Dame burned and the plan planned by the executive went…
Riots: “France is fractured as it has not been since the Algerian war”
After Nahel’s death, the President of the Republic quickly qualified the policeman’s act as “inexplicable and inexcusable”. At the same time, a number of voices in the government hastened to…
Riots after the death of Nahel: Alliance or the strategy of excess
One press release can overshadow another. The text published this Friday, June 30 by Alliance and Unsa Police, the two main national police unions, made an impression. The two organizations,…