France: On a relatively peaceful night, a 24-year-old firefighter dies fighting a fire
"Only" 157 detainees during the night: in recent days there had been hundreds, in some cases even exceeding a thousandA 24-year-old firefighter died in Saint Denis while fighting vehicle fires in an underground car park. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin made it known on Twitter.
A tragedy that comes on the first night of relative tranquility in France. Indeed, it seems that the wave of violence unleashed by the death of Nahel, the 17-year-old killed by the police in the Parisian banlieue of Nanterre, has reached its peak and is starting to subside.
"Only" 157 detentions carried out by the police, announced the French Ministry of the Interior. Numbers far lower than those of the last two nights, in which there were hundreds of detentions and even exceeded the thousand mark. Confirming that the situation is slowly returning to normal.
In Lyon - as reported by Le Monde - the night was quiet with sporadic rocket launches and a dozen cars set on fire in the Guillotière district.
On the one hand the appeal of Nahel's grandmother to stop the violence, on the other an episode that shocked the French, that burning car thrown into the house of the mayor of L'Haÿ-les-Rose, on the outskirts of Paris . With the mayor's wife and little son injured by angry demonstrators during the escape.
An episode that made it clear that the limit had really been crossed, with the line between unrest and real revolt that was gradually becoming thinner. The night just passed, therefore, could represent the beginning of a gradual return to normality. Despite the first tragic death of a rescuer.
(Unioneonline/L)