FORBES
Nearly 900 people were arrested across France on a third night of protests after the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old boy in the Paris suburb of Nanterre this week.
KEY FACTS
The victim, Nahel M., was fatally shot by a police officer at a traffic stop Tuesday, inciting riots across French cities.
French authorities mobilized 40,000 police officers in anticipation of the violence, according to ABC.
Nearly 500 buildings were destroyed, “2,000 vehicles were burned and 3,880 fires were started,” President Emmanuel Macron said at the start of a crisis meeting Friday.
Macron in a statement condemned the violence and said more police would be deployed.
KEY BACKGROUND
Nahel’s death, which was caught on video, revived the community’s preexisting outrageover racial profiling and police violence. The officer who shot Nahel has been charged with voluntary homicide and issued an apology to Nahel’s family, according to police. The protests bring back the memory of the 2005 French riotsover protests of police violence, which lasted three weeks and caused a state of emergency.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
In Marseille—France’s second-largest city—public demonstrations have been banned Friday and public transportation will close by 7 p.m., according to French officials…
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