Crowds across France show solidarity at town halls targeted in rioting following police shooting

International

3-07-2023, 23:00

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INA - SOURCES

Crowds gathered at town halls across France on Monday, to show solidarity with local governments targeted in six nights of violence touched off by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old in suburban Paris.

The unrest, which appeared to be easing on Sunday night, was driven by a mainly teenage backlash in the suburbs and urban housing projects against a French state that many young people with immigrant roots say routinely discriminates against them. In all, 99 town halls have been attacked in the violence, the Interior Ministry said.

In the municipality of l’Hay-les-Les Roses in the southern suburbs of Paris, hundreds of people gathered on Monday, to support Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun whose wife and one of his young children were injured as they fled early Sunday when their home was rammed by a car that rioters had set on fire.