Police had arrested 719 people nationwide by the early hours of Sunday, after a deployment of 45,000 officers and “gendarmes” in an attempt to control crowds in the quickly unfolding crisis, the French interior ministry says.
in Nanterre on Saturday. He was buried in a hilltop ceremony in the Paris suburb, where hundreds of people lined the road to pay tribute as his white casket was carried from a mosque to the burial ground, The Associated Press reported.
The teenager’s grandmother pleaded with rioters Sunday to stop as the nation faced a sixth straight night of unrest. The woman, identified only as Nadia, said in a telephone interview with the French news broadcaster BFM TV: “Don’t break windows, buses ... schools. We want to calm things down.” She said she was angry at the officer who killed her grandson but not at the police in general, and she expressed faith in the justice system as France faces its worst social upheaval in years.on Saturday night, and gendarmes went equipped with an armored vehicle to support local security forces, the Bouches-du-Rhône police force said in a series of Twitter updates Sunday morning. It added that 71 people had been arrested overnight.
Three commercial centers in the north of Marseille were looted, though security forces were able to disperse crowds. Businesses spent the day boarding up, mass gatherings were prohibited overnight, and public transportation services shut down by 6 p.m., according to social media updates from the city of Marseille and local police.
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