A firefighter has died in France after responding to a blaze in an underground automotive park, the inside minister has mentioned.
Gerald Darmanin mentioned the 24-year-old died in Saint-Denis, within the northern suburbs of Paris, regardless of the efforts of his colleagues.
« All my honest and saddened condolences to his household, family members, comrades and to the BSPP [Paris Fire Brigade], » he mentioned.
However the BSPP has not but linked the dying with the continuing riots. The hearth brigade instructed Le Parisien: « We intervene each week, all yr spherical, on a dozen fires of this kind, we should not confuse concomitance and causality. »
It comes after practically per week of violence in France following the deadly police capturing of Nahel Merzouk, 17, who was killed throughout a visitors cease.
{The teenager} was buried on Saturday.
Greater than 3,000 folks have been arrested within the riots which have additionally concerned violence and looting.
In a single day, greater than 150 folks have been detained, whereas not less than three of the 45,000 law enforcement officials deployed have been injured.
This marks a big lower in in a single day arrests, down from 700 on Saturday and greater than 1,300 on Friday.
There have been additionally 352 city fires recorded and 297 reviews of autos burnt on Sunday evening.
Cities throughout France have now seen six nights of heavy riots as French President Emmanuel Macron’s authorities makes an attempt to regain management of the scenario, simply months after widespread protests over unpopular pension reforms and a yr out from internet hosting the Olympic Summer season Video games.
In the meantime, Nahel Merzouk’s grandmother has urged rioters to cease the violence that has seen automobiles torched, shops looted and city halls and different buildings focused – together with the house of the mayor of a Paris suburb that was attacked whereas his spouse and youngsters have been asleep inside on Saturday.
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Mr Macron held a particular safety assembly Sunday evening and plans to fulfill with the heads of each homes of parliament and the mayors of 220 cities and cities affected by the protests over the subsequent two days.
He desires to start out an in depth, longer-term evaluation of the explanations that led to the unrest, a French official mentioned.
The president additionally delayed what would have been the primary state go to to Germany by a French president in 23 years, which had been scheduled to start out on Sunday night.
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