The French police arrested 322 people, including 126 in the capital, Paris and its nearby suburb, on Sunday night, at a time when the intensity of the violence sparked by the killing of a teenager by a policeman’s bullet is declining, according to a statement by the French Ministry of the Interior.
The ministry stated, in a statement broadcast by the French News Agency, that incidents were recorded on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, in Marseille (south), where 56 people were arrested, and in Lyon (center-east), where 21 people were arrested, based on a provisional toll.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanan had announced earlier the mobilization of about 45,000 police and gendarmerie elements at night (Saturday-Sunday) to deal with the riots.
It is noteworthy that widespread protests erupted in the French capital and other cities against the backdrop of the killing of a 17-year-old teenager with a fatal bullet in the chest fired by a policeman at close range during a traffic check in a suburb of Paris last Tuesday, and during the continuous protests, police stations were attacked.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency