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Rioting rages across France for fourth night ahead of Nahel’s funeral. 09:50, Tara Cobham. Rioting raged across France for a fourth night as family and friends prepare to bury the 17-year-old ...
The question France is asking today is: has it come back as state-sanctioned policy? The video footage of a French police officer shooting a 17-year-old teenager dead at point-blank range through ...
France also saw protests against racial profiling and other injustice in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police in Minnesota. Tuesday’s killing was the third fatal shooting during ...
On 9 June 2024, the National Rally party headed by Jordan Bardella, obtained 31.36% of the votes in the European parliamentary elections, causing French President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly and call for new legislative elections in two rounds on 30 June and 7 July 2024, to elect the 577 members of the 17th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic.
A series of riots in France began on 27 June 2023 following the fatal shooting of Nahel Merzouk in an encounter with two police officers in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris. Residents started a protest outside the police headquarters on the 27 June, which later escalated into rioting as demonstrators set cars alight, destroyed bus stops, and shot ...
Though France's homicide rate fluctuated substantially in recent years, it tended to decrease through 2020 - 2024 period ending at 6.96 cases per 100,000 population in 2020 and 6.9 cases per 100,000 in 2021 and 6.62 cases per 100,000 in 2022 and 6.5 cases per 100,000 in 2023 and 6.31 cases per 100,000 in 2024 [1]
PARIS (Reuters) -Some 30,000 police will be deployed across France late on Sunday following the high-stakes runoff of a parliamentary election to ensure there is no trouble, a minister said, as ...
BBC News and France 24 claim he announced 123 police officers had been injured nationwide, [138] [127] while an independent journalist said he claimed 149 had been injured in Paris alone. [148] In Paris, one officer was "dragged to safety while unconscious, as he and his colleagues came under fire from fireworks and other missiles.