Second night of wild episodes on the night of Wednesday to Thursday in France, after the murder of 17-year-old Nael by a policeman’s bullet, despite efforts by Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne and other government officials to defuse the situation. Many sections of the population who feel marginalized, especially young people, have no confidence in the institutions and loathe the police.

Despite the fact that approximately 2,000 police and gendarmes were mobilized by on Wednesday evening in Paris, and especially in Haute-de-Seine, cto prevent new cases of violenceclashes and destruction were not avoided, with authorities making at least 150 arrests, according to a statement by Interior Minister Gerard Darmanen on Twitter.

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Over 10 police vehicles and garbage cans were set on fire; roadblocks were set up. The phrases were spray painted on the facade of the property “Justice for Nael” and “Police Kill”.

Clashes between protesters and police officers were ongoing at around 01:00 [02:00 ώρα Ελλάδας] in the district, which already became a theater of incidents the day before. The two sides exchanged tear gas, stones, pieces of slabs from sidewalks.

About 20 communities in the Saint-Saint-Denis arrondissement, a department in the northeastern sector of the Paris metropolitan area, recorded incidents, according to an AFP police source.

In Esson, south of the capital, a group of protesters set fire to an empty bus at 9:00 p.m. [22:00]according to AFP’s police source.

Episodes also broke out in the Toulouse sector (southwest). Columns of thick black smoke were rising from the area, mainly because a truck was on fire, a journalist of the agency found.

Tensions were reported in all four corners of the country, especially in Lyon (east), where law enforcement forces were targeted rain of fireworks.

In some cases, notably in Saint-Etienne (east), Lille (north) and Rennes (north-west), the incidents broke out on the sidelines of rallies in support of an environmental movement recently dismantled by Emmanuel Macron’s government.

Nael’s mother called for a protest march on Thursday in front of the Haute-de-Seine district building. “It’s a rebellion for my son” he said characteristically.

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