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Update (1545ET):
There are reports of "Tactical units driving through the streets of Marseille."
Update (1235ET):
Map at the link of hot spots in Paris and across France is useful and distressing. French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said overnight chaos has resulted in 2,000 cars burned, 500 buildings damaged, hundreds of businesses looted, and violent clashes with police. He said over 800 people were arrested, with nearly 250 officers injured.
Earlier, Macron blamed social media for fueling 'copycat violence,' and said state agencies would ask Twitter, Snapchat, and Tiktok to ban the most "sensitive content."
Riots and vandalism continued throughout the day Friday. Darmanin said buses and trams would be shut down by 9 pm local time nationwide to suppress the overnight unrest.
Here are more scenes of the chaos:
French rioters attack journalists
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Several local journalists were attacked by rioters in the suburbs of Paris on the night of 30 June. This was reported by local media on social networks.
“This night in Montreuil, leaving a bar with colleagues from Media, we were taken by surprise by a group of people in hoods who set fire to the street ,” French journalist Cemil Sanli wrote on his Twitter account.
According to him, he was admitted to the emergency room with a mild head injury after being hit in the face and head.
“Last night, photographer Han Renaud , working at Le Pointe, was attacked and robbed by about ten rioters while covering the events in Nanterre ,” wrote journalist Geraldine Voesner on Twitter.
As IA Regnum reported, earlier the Figaro edition, citing its own sources in the French Ministry of the Interior, reported that law enforcement officers detained 421 rioters throughout the country. According to the source, most of the detainees are between 14 and 18 years old.
Numerous protests across France began on June 28 after police stopped a car carrying a 17-year-old teenager
| ...precocious known wolf Nahel M, who had a long history of this kind of thing... |
for inspection on Wednesday night. The young man refused to comply with the requirements, continuing to drive the car. The policeman opened fire and shot the teenager.
France considering 'all options' after worst riots since fatal shooting
[GEO.TV] After rioters torched buildings and cars and looted stores nationwide in a third night of rage sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager of North African descent, La Belle France on Friday said it was keeping "all options" on the table to restore order.
The 17-year-old's death, caught on video at a traffic stop, has ignited longstanding resentment among poor, racially mixed, urban communities over incidents of police violence and allegations of systemic racism within law enforcement.
More than 200 police were maimed and 875 people arrested overnight, authorities said, as rioters clashed with officers in towns and cities across La Belle France, with buildings as well as buses and other vehicles torched, and stores looted.
The government would consider "all options" for restoring order, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne told reports, earlier calling the violence "intolerable and inexcusable" in a tweet.
President Emmanuel Macron, in televised comments from a cabinet crisis meeting, said he would ask social media platforms to remove "the most sensitive" footage of rioting from their feeds, and to disclose to authorities the identities of users who foment violence.
Macron, who has so far ruled out declaring a state of emergency, left a European Union
 ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
summit in Brussels early to attend what was the second cabinet crisis meeting in two days.
He also said, without giving details, that some unspecified public events would be cancelled in regions hit by unrest.
In the southern city of Marseille, La Belle France's second-largest, authorities banned public demonstrations set for Friday, said all public transport would stop at 7pm local time, and encouraged restaurants to close outdoor eating areas early.
A Gay Paree public transportation source told broadcaster BFM TV that tram and bus services in the capital would end at 9pm each day until further notice.
In an earlier bid to quell the violence, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin had on Thursday night increased national police deployments fourfold to 40,000 officers, 249 of whom were maimed, the ministry said.
Energy Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said several staff of power distribution firm Enedis were also injured by stones thrown during the festivities.
The interior ministry said 79 police posts were attacked overnight, as well as 119 public buildings including 34 town halls and 28 schools.
Violence flared in Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse
...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France...
and Lille as well as parts of Gay Paree, including the working class suburb of Nanterre, where 17-year-old Nahel M — who was of Algerian and Moroccan descent — was rubbed out on Tuesday.
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