Macron cancels planned visit to Germany amid ongoing disruption across country with 45,000 police deployed and some 1,300 arrested
However, two of the country’s biggest police unions, Alliance and Unsa, issued an inflammatory statement describing protesters as “savage hordes” and “pests”, and warning the government: “Today the police are in combat because we are at war. Tomorrow we will be in resistance.”
The arrested officer’s lawyer, Laurent-Franck Lienard, told BFMTV the police brigadier had never previously fired his gun on duty and had not set out to kill anyone. He said the officer’s priority had been to immobilise the vehicle “to avoid anyone else’s life being put in danger”. And he disputed claims that the officer had threatened to shoot the driver in the head before firing.
On Friday, staff at the Saint Algue hairdressers in the Rue des Lumières – the street of lights – in the Paris suburb of Montreuil arrived to find the salon wrecked: plate-glass windows were smashed, cupboards and display cabinets overturned, and drawers emptied. As workers boarded up windows and doors along the shopping precinct, butterfly-shaped wedding confetti blew along the street outside Montreuil town hall, which was also littered with the discarded boxes of perfume looted from a nearby cosmetic store.“This has nothing to do with the death of that poor boy,” a local man in his 40s, who did not want to be named, said. “The people who did this are thieves pure and simple. They just smashed their way into these places and went shopping.
On Saturday, the justice minister, Éric Dupond-Moretti, said legal moves would be taken to force social media platforms to hand over details of those arranging the pillaging of property, with the threat of possible sanctions if they refused.
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