Thousands of citizens responded Monday to call against violence in front of the town halls of the cities of France in the shadow of the attack on residence of a mayor in the Paris region. The fear of new episodes in france at night is realwhile they have been carried out about 3,200 arrests from last Tuesday until Sunday.

“We will not let anyone stab the Republic”, explained the French Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanen. “I don’t confuse the vast majority of people in working-class neighborhoods with criminals,” he added. “There are no social excuses,” clarified the minister.

In the town hall of Nanterre, in the city where he was shot dead by a police officer 17-year-old Nael triggering it wave of wild riots across Francea lot of people also gathered.

“Democracy is under attack” said the mayor for his part Vincent Jeanbrin, the mayor of the Republican party in the suburb Lai le Rose, whose house was attacked. “We saw the true face of the rioters, it was the face of the killers,” he said.

“They diverted their hatred by resorting to a vile act, they wanted to murder my wife and my two little children in their sleep.” “The greatest act of bravery was done by a mother who saved a child,” he noted. His wife managed to escape the rioters’ attack by taking the two young children when a car crashed into their house.

The French interior minister announced earlier that about 3,200 people were arrested by the French forces of order from Tuesday until yesterdaySunday, in five consecutive nights of rioting sparked by the death of 17-year-old Nael.

“60%” of these 3,200 people “had no criminal recordthey are not known to the police services” and “they had never been the subject of a control”, emphasized the French minister.

THE average age of those arrested is “the 17 years, in some cases they are children, there is no other word, 12-13 years old, who became arsonists or attacked the forces of order or elected officials”, he also underlined.

“The police and the gendarmes, following the request of the President of the Republic, will continue their emergency mobilization in the following nights”, clarified Darmanen, although he clarified that the situation last night was better.

The French minister also announced that they were disengaged 20 million euros to restore “by the end of the summer” the security cameras destroyed during the riots.

Macron calls for the “massive” police presence to remain

Emmanuel Macron asked the interior minister to maintain a “mass presence” on the ground in order to ensure the “return to calm” while reducing violence, said the environment of the head of state. “The President of the Republic wants the executive to maintain a high level of engagement and pressure on the groundwith a massive presence, to consolidate it return to calm and order”the same source emphasizes.

The French Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanen announced today that around 3,200 people have been arrested by French law enforcement since Tuesday until yesterday, Sunday, in five consecutive nights of riots sparked by the death of 17-year-old Nael.

“60%” of these 3,200 people “had no criminal recordare not known to the police services” and “they had never been the subject of an audit”the minister said during his visit to Rennes, in northeastern France.

The average age of those arrested is “the 17 yearsin some cases they are children, there is no other word, 12-13 years old, who became arsonists or attacked law enforcement or elected officials.” also underlined.

Darmanen insisted “in the responsibility of the parents, the family” in supervising these young people, “because it is not up to the national police or the gendarmerie or the mayor or even the State to sort out the problem when a 12-year-old child sets fire to a school”.

The minister says that after last night in which there was no major incident, he finds that “order is restored”“thanks to the determination shown.”

Nevertheless “the police and gendarmes, following the request of the President of the Republic, will continue their emergency mobilization in the coming nights”he added.

The minister also announced that 20 million euros were released to restore them “since the end of the summer” the “video security cameras” that were broken during the riots. “State money is at the disposal of the mayors of France”, he emphasized.

Buses and trams stop at 21:00

At the same time, buses and trams continue to apply the handbrake earlier in Ile-de-France.

Specifically, for one more day they will return to the depot again at 9 pm at the latest, “to safeguard the safety of agents and travelers”even if the intensity of the riots has decreased significantly, the transport agency Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) said.