The president Emmanuel Macron is going to meet the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate on Monday, as violent protests over the police shooting death of teenager Nahel appear to be winding down after five nights of unrest which have caused thousands of arrests and widespread destruction.

The head of state also wishes “to begin a detailed and longer-term work on to understand in depth the causes that led to these events»announced by his services.

The mayors of France have called the citizens today to gather in front of the country’s town halls to denounce the wave of violence that is rocking French cities and seems to be subsiding anyway.

The Association of Mayors of France (AMF) invited the population to “a mobilization of citizens to return to the democratic order”a few hours after violent attack with a car used as a battering ram on Saturday night into Sunday against a mayor’s residence in the Paris region causing general indignation.

The association underlined “Ms serious riots” occurring since June 27 “all over France” and “they target with extreme violence the symbols of the Republic which are the town halls, schools, libraries, municipal police”.

The riots broke out on the night of June 27, day of Nael’s deathof a 17-year-old boy who was killed when he was shot at point-blank range by a police motorcyclist during a traffic stop.

After five nights of unrest in cities, a return to calm began to appear. Law enforcement arrested 157 people last night, compared with more than 400 the previous day, according to the interior ministry, and there were no major incidents.

A 24-year-old firefighter succumbed during the night while he was fighting to extinguish a fire that had broken out in vehicles in an underground parking lot, but so far no connection has been established between this fire and the violent incidents. The authorities announced that an investigation is underway.

The Ministry of the Interior spoke of three wounded among the forces of the order, while recording 352 fires in public places as well as 297 fires in vehicles. A police station and a gendarmerie camp were targeted.

Today at noon (13:00 Greek time) the sirens of all town halls in France are about to soundas AMF has requested.

After the violent attack on the residence of the mayor of L’Île-les-Rose (south of Paris) Vincent Jeanbrin, Prime Minister Elisabeth Bourne assured the mayors that the Government “will not allow any violence” and that “the greatest severity” will be shown in the sanctions that will be imposed.