Street unrest eased in France overnight
treet unrest eased in France overnight after nearly a week of riots and looting touched off by a police officer’s fatal shooting of a teenager.
“We have to remain cautious,” Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said on France Inter radio when asked about the unrest. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday that the average age of the 3,200 people arrested was 17 and said some as young as 12 had been setting fires. “We all need to ask ourselves about the responsibility of families, parents, because it’s not up to the police, or even mayors or the state to solve the problem when a child of 12 sets fire to a school,” Darmanin said while touring the city of Reims.
French government spokesman Olivier Veran said “there is no political message” in ransacking a store during the night. “I don’t call these scenes of looting a movement,” he told France Inter radio. The French opposition at both ends of the political spectrum has seized on the crisis as evidence that the government is failing to ensure public safety and narrow economic disparity.
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