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Since September 2024, there have been widespread protests and violent confrontations across the French Caribbean territory of Martinique.The unrest is caused by elevated costs of living, consequential bans on public protests placed by the central Government of France on several municipalities, and the deployment of elite riot police that had been banned from the territory for over 65 years due ...
French interior minister Gerald Darmanin ordered a nationwide night-time shutdown of all public buses and trams in response to the riots and added 5,000 police to the streets, increasing the ...
The Association of French Librarians reported that around 40 libraries had been damaged due to the riots, most of which were public and funded locally, but some private ones like the Librairie Occitane had been hit too. These incidents had happened in all types of urban areas, including cities and small towns. [99]
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a government emergency meeting on 2 July 2023 after riots erupted for the fifth night in a row across the country following the death of Nahel, a 17-year ...
French interior minister Gerald Darmanin ordered a nationwide night-time shutdown of all public buses and trams in response to the riots and added 5,000 police to the streets, increasing the ...
Nahel Merzouk riots after the 27 June 2023 police killing near Paris; 2023 French pension reform strikes; See also. List of incidents of civil unrest in France
The French government has so far stopped short of declaring a state of emergency — a measure taken to quell weeks of rioting around France that followed the accidental death of two boys fleeing ...
Believed to be the first suburban riot in French history. [3] 1981: Rodéo (riot), riots that consisted of stealing cars, driving them in tight circles, and ultimately burning them. 1990: Rioting in Vaulx-en-Velin after a young man of Spanish origin was killed in a motorbike crash allegedly caused by police. [3]