At least 96 people were arrested in various altercations during the night of the French national holiday, between Friday and Saturday, which in any case had much fewer incidents than last year, as shown by the 255 vehicles set on fire, 40% less.
The French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, wanted to underline this Saturday morning with the still provisional figures on his Twitter account this “important drop” in material damage, and attributed it “to our law enforcement, their presence and their numerous preventive controls carried out.”
Faced with the risk of a new outbreak such as that of the riots that lasted for a week starting on the 27th After the death of a young man in the city of Nanterre by a police shot while trying to skip a control, Darmanin had decided on a massive deployment of agents for the national holiday of July 14.
Total, 45,000 police officers and gendarmes took to the streets both the night before and the night after that July 14in which 7 of them were injured, when on the same date in 2022 there had been 21.
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There were 51 episodes in which fireworks were used against law enforcement, compared to 333 a year earlier.
From on June 27 and the start of riots in sensitive neighborhoods of many French citiesthe Police had requisitioned some 165,000 mortars, the most feared fireworks in those attacks.
The festivities on July 14 traditionally end with fireworks. The most popular are those of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, which tens of thousands of people in the surrounding area witnessed on the street. In the capital and its immediate periphery, 10,000 police and gendarmes had been mobilized.
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