Police detained 427 rioters at night from Saturday to Sunday, France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted. “The night was calmer owing to decisive actions of police that made 427 detentions from the start of the evening,” the minister wrote on his account in Twitter. Forty-five thousand police officers and gendarmes ...
The French government struggles to contain an escalation of unrest that has spread across the country over the police shooting of a teenager earlier this week. President Emmanuel Macron is to head another crisis meeting of ministers on Friday, as the unrest has spread from housing estates across the country ...