France in a spiral of violence
40,000 gendarmes and police officers, the RAID, the BRI and the GIGN were unable to prevent rioters from ransacking numerous French towns for the third night running. The executive has reached an impasse.
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Nanterre : scenes of rioting after Nahel’s death
Third day of violence after the death of a 17-year-old boy, killed by a police shot after refusing to obey.
Scenes of war in Sainte-Soline (Deux Sèvres)
Violent confrontations opposed demonstrators and police forces this Saturday afternoon. The toll is heavy: 24 gendarmes were injured as well as about thirty opponents to the highly contested mega-pond project. Several vehicles were set on fire.
The new law enforcement armored vehicles
The new law enforcement vehicles are starting to equip the gendarmerie. With a 30-shot grenade launcher system, a long-range camera and other gadgets, these armored vehicles are impressive. And worrying !
Football : scenes of chaos in the stadiums
Saturday, big fight at the gates of the stadium of France, in Paris. Sunday, a fight at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium in Saint-Etienne. But what does the police do?
Paris: An encampment at the Place de la Bastille
Utopia 56, a migrant aid association, is setting up tents in the middle of Paris alongside thirty or so young people living on the streets to force the government to create a housing facility for young migrants.
The Damien Abad affair : the heavy fault of the Élysée
The Élysée should have been concerned about the suspicions that hovered over the deputy of the Ain before appointing him Minister of Solidarity. On the sexual affairs, but also on a more surprising case.
Omar Raddad : The track voluntarily discarded
Is the greatest judicial scandal of the 20ᵉ century on its way to being solved? That is what the lawyers of the Moroccan gardener want, as they point to new DNA traces and a mysteriously abandoned investigation. “We have the names, what are we waiting for to compare the DNA, asks former magistrate Georges Fenech. We can’t leave it at that”.
Israeli police charge at funeral of Palestinian journalist
Israeli police brutally dispersed the funeral procession accompanying the coffin of Al Jezeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, killed last Wednesday in the West Bank. The indignation is widespread.
Corsica catches fire: 38 injured and major damage
Ten days after the attack on Yvan Colonna by a radicalized fellow prisoner in Arles, demonstrations continued in Corsica. The scuffles have left 38 people injured, 24 of them among the police. Provisional figures.
Convoy of Freedom: Paris under siege
Despite the ban on entering the capital, thousands of vehicles managed to enter Paris where clashes took place with the police, particularly around the Arc-de-Triomphe.
Claude Guéant in the slammer
The former Minister of the Interior of Nicolas Sarkozy was incarcerated in the prison of La Santé, this Monday, as part of the case of cash bonuses of the Ministry of the Interior.