by Oliver JJ Lane, Breitbart:
The French government is considering “all options” including a nationwide state of emergency after another night of violence which saw hundreds of arrests and injured police officers, and thousands of fires, including many symbols of the state including town halls, schools, post offices, and buses destroyed.
Some 40,000 police officers were deployed across France on Thursday night in an attempt to forestall a third night of violence triggered by the death on Tuesday of a delivery driver at the hands of a police officer in a Paris suburb after he refused to comply with a traffic stop. Yet the enormous show of force by the French state failed to prevent even greater levels of destruction.
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Per France’s Le Figaro reports there were 875 arrests overnight nationwide, which saw protest and violence spread to urban areas across the country and even to neighbouring Belgium, the home of the European Union. Figures that underline the considerable scale of the attacks reveal there were some 3,880 fires set overnight, 249 police officers injured — although none seriously — and 492 buildings damaged.
Burnt cars line the street at the foot of the Pablo Picasso estate in Nanterre, west of Paris on June 30, 2023 (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images)
A view of a car that is set on fire during a protest against the death of 17-year-old Nahel, who was shot in the chest by police in Nanterre on June 27, in Paris, France on June 29, 2023. At least 150 protesters have been arrested in France following the shooting death of a 17-year-old delivery driver by police in a Paris suburb. (Photo by Firas Abdullah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Police stand by as material explodes in the Cite Pablo Picasso area of Nanterre, north-west of Paris early June 30, 2023 (Photo by Zakaria ABDELKAFI / AFP)
Among those buildings damaged were several town halls and schools burnt out, reports state. Le Parisien cites the Interior Ministry to report 80 police stations were damaged overnight, 34 town halls burnt or otherwise damaged, 28 schools, and 57 other state buildings nationwide. Attacks on symbols of the state appeared so targeted even individual post-boxes were attacked. President of the French Republican Party Eric Ciotti posted footage to social media that claimed to show a French mayor being attacked by a mob as his car was set on fire.
In Marseille, two off-duty police officers were recognised out of uniform and were “seriously injured” in what has been described as a “lynching”.
Looting of businesses including gas stations, tobacconists, and apparel stores has also been reported. In one Parisian suburb, a truck was used to ram down the doors of a shopping centre so looters could access the stores inside.
