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The Compagnies républicaines de sécurité (French: [kɔ̃paɲi ʁepyblikɛn də sekyʁite], Republican Security Corps), abbreviated CRS, are the general reserve of the French National Police. They are primarily involved in general security missions, but the task for which they are best known is crowd and riot control.
The 2005 French riots were in reaction to the death of two Muslim teenagers, electrocuted while hiding from police in an electrical substation. Then-prime minister Dominique de Villepin and his Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy suggested that the boys were thieves, which did little to calm the situation.
Watch live: Emmanuel Macron meets mayors affected by France riots. Recap: Who is Nahel Merzouk? The teen shot dead by police in France. 08:58, Matt Mathers. France has seen another night of ...
On 27 June 2023, Nahel Merzouk (25 February 2006 – 27 June 2023), [1] a 17-year-old French youth of Moroccan and Algerian descent, [2] was shot at point-blank range and killed by police officer Florian M., when he didn't comply with a request to turn off ignition and attempted to drive away in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, France.
French riot police run past a fire during a demonstration in Paris on Thursday (AFP/Getty) Protesters angry with president Emmanuel Macron and his plan to raise the pension age clashed with police ...
French riot police, equipped with full riot gear, stand in formation in front of a Yellow Vest protester in 2019. In 2018 and 2019, France experienced massive protests known as the Yellow Vest Protests. The Yellow Vest Protests were primarily in response to rising costs of living, low wages, and vast inequality between higher and lower economic ...
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 ...
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 ...