French authorities will maintain a massive police deployment overnight in an effort to ensure a continued drop in the unrest that has hit the country for the past week.
While the violence has ebbed, the shooting of Nahel, a 17-year-old of North African descent, remains a flashpoint in a crisis over racism and inequality in France that has highlighted serious tensions in the country’s ethnically mixed suburban neighborhoods.
Some 45,000 police and other forces will be on the ground across the country, the same as the past few nights, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
“The instructions are the same,” he said. “As soon as there’s something that doesn’t comply with the law or is creating public disorder: firmness, arrest, presentation before a judge.”
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