France “count her wounds” after serious riots that shocked society in the past days.

According to data from the Ministry of the Interior, from the evening of June 27 to 28 until Tuesday morning 3,486 people were arrested, 12,202 vehicles were burned, 1,105 buildings were burned or damaged and 209 national police, gendarmerie or municipal police units were attacked. A total of 374 people have been tried in the process of self-immolation from Friday, according to the Ministry of Justice.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. (5.30 Greek time) the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanen “for the riots that took place from June 27, 2023”, after the death of 17-year-old Nael, who was killed by a police officer. The hearing will be open to the press and streamed live on the Senate website.

The peak of the crisis has passedEmmanuel Macron assured for his part, warning however that it must to remain “careful”.

“Is the return to calm sustainable? I will still be very careful for the next few days and weeks. But finally the climax we experienced the first few nights has passed”estimated, speaking at the Elysée, the French head of state speaking before 250 mayors in the cities where the incidents took place.

“It is the lasting, democratic order that we all want, that we will take care of. This is the top priority”, he added. According to a participant in this meeting away from the media, the president expressed to the elected officials “the support, appreciation and recognition of the nation” for their “action” in recent days.

“If you are there, it’s because you have been victims sometimes you have been victimized in a very direct and personal way, your families and your loved ones in an unbearable and unspeakable way (…) I also want to publicly thank all the police, gendarmes and municipal police, obviously the firefighters too us”, he also said.

Moreover, the riots that rocked France in the past few days caused “at least 20 million euros” in damage to Paris public transport. The assessment was made on Monday by IDFM (Ile-de-France Mobilités), the organization that manages public transport in the administrative region of Ile-de-France, which includes the greater area of ​​the French capital.

In this amount counted “the buses and the tram that were burnedtwo damaged trams, as well as the broken benches at the stops,” IDFM told AFP, confirming information previously reported by the newspaper Le Parisien.

In the last week, a total of 39 buses were set on fire in the greater Paris area. Each bus costs almost 350,000 eurosaccording to the organization’s data.