The third night of riots following the untimely death of 17-year-old Nahel M., who was shot dead by police officers during a traffic stop gone wrong, saw a Holocaust memorial site defaced in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre where the shooting occurred.
Amid the ongoing riots that have engulfed France since June 27th following the death of 17-year-old Arab teenager Nahel M., reports emerged that a violent attack on an elderly French priest in Saint-Étienne was related to the general unrest. The Diocese of Saint-Étienne later published an official statement disputing this.
On Thursday evening, June 29th in Saint-Étienne, capital of the administrative division of the Loire, unknown actors assaulted and robbed Father Francis Palle.
A grandmother of the teenage boy killed by a policeman in a Paris suburb pleaded for an end to the violence after five nights of rioting in France.
As the authorities prepared to deploy 45,000 police and special forces officers on Sunday night, 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk’s grandmother Nadia appealed for calm.
“I say to the people who are breaking things up — stop,” she told the French broadcaster BFMTV. “Nahel is dead. My daughter had just one child. She’s lost, it’s over, my daughter has no life.”
Patriot Marine Le Pen’s statement in response to the #FranceRiots (English subtitles).
#Macron.#FranceBurning #FranceHasFallen #FranceOnFire #Emeute
— 1776 (@TheWakeninq) July 2, 2023
Nationalists patrolling Lyon tonight, already getting shot at with teargas by police. #FranceRiots #FranceHasFallen #FranceOnFire pic.twitter.com/mQ1a6kKrkr
— Paul Golding (@GoldingBF) July 2, 2023
Strange coincidence that Elon Musk is strangling Twitter just as France descends into martial law….
It's almost as if The Regime doesn't want us to know what's going in France…#FranceHasFallen #FranceRiots#FranceOnFire pic.twitter.com/Tm3LESiZfX
— #FtheWEF till the day I die (@NEOintheMCR) July 2, 2023
Rioters fire an RPG at a police station.
Rioters in France have been seen firing automatic rifles, shotguns, and using explosives.
“This is war”, said one rioter.#FranceRiots #FranceOnFire pic.twitter.com/Vwj2iqPmVq
— NVN | Now Video Network (@NowVideoNetwork) July 2, 2023
Rioters rammed a car into the home of a mayor in southern Paris before setting it on fire while his wife and children were sleeping.
Protesters chased Melanie Nowak and her two children behind the house and into the garden as the family tried to escape, in the latest example of fierce violence gripping France.
The mother suffered a serious leg fracture after trying to push her children over the wall that separates her garden from her neighbour’s backyard and was recovering in hospital on Sunday morning. One of the children was also injured.
Animals roam Paris streets after Protesters Open Zoo
Cars, libraries, supermarkets, residential areas were set on fire as France protests intensified amid the death of a teen. Amid all this, the protesters freed zoo animals in Paris which have since then been freely roaming around in the city.
THE RIOTERS LET LIONS OUT OF THE ZOO IN FRANCE 😱 WTF??? pic.twitter.com/xAgIvJZa7c
— Swig 🇺🇸 (@OldRowSwig) July 1, 2023
The rioters in France are inside a zoo.
Really hope they don’t hurt or steal the animals 😒 pic.twitter.com/Jlw46I1cvw
— Swig 🇺🇸 (@OldRowSwig) July 1, 2023
When the French rioters freed the zoo animals last night, the city was overrun with lions, goats, and zebras. The fact that zoo animals are present throughout the city and pose a threat to everyone living in France is appalling. #Riots #emeutes #Paris pic.twitter.com/kDWh4dpm19
— AI CHEF 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 (@Neo19890) July 2, 2023
h/t Mauser
France has dispatched its elite GIGN commandos to reinforce beleaguered police as the country braces for a fifth night of violence over the killing of Nahel Merzouk.
Some 45,000 police officers and Gendarmes were mobilised on Saturday evening, after hundreds of people gathered to bury the 17-year-old police shooting victim in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
Arrests were made in cities across France with a police source quoted on BFMTV giving the number as 121.
And again, the pattern repeats itself. Alès police station – in a residential area – is set ablaze using fireworks and other explosive tactics. #FranceRiots pic.twitter.com/uwlWShxZUb
— verity ♀ (@verityveratee) July 1, 2023
Advanced method of ‘looting’ 🤡🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/mWqCYvxFGC
— Orthodox Canonist (@OCanonist) July 2, 2023
France has become a failed state.
(Volkswagen dealership looted, Marseille)#emeutes#parisriots#Paris#FranceRiots#FranceHasFallen#franceViolence#FranceProtest#France#Nanterre#Nahel#Marseille pic.twitter.com/xv8OyBIvWP
— Richard (@ricwe123) July 2, 2023
Fdesouche has more video – Live riots Saturday + Saturday/Sunday night despite Twitter limitations and government requests to other platforms and media
Inside, Emmanuel Macron was sharing a typically polished vision of a rejuvenated, safer Marseille. Yet it was outside the spruced-up gym in the impoverished Busserine district – tensions building on the hottest day of the year – where the real story was playing out.
Little more than 12 hours before the police killing of a 17-year-old boy 500 miles north in Nanterre would convulse the country, scores of officers clutching assault rifles and bulletproof riot shields clashed with teenagers of north African descent, trading insults as officers profiled potential troublemakers.
“Marseille’s districts abandoned by the police” AKA Intensely hostile “NO GO Zones” established by drug gangs.
Much of the worst footage is coming out of Marseille, with fireworks targeted at cars, massive stores looted by hundreds of men, and fires set reaching five stories high. #FranceRiots pic.twitter.com/miGY4e83At
— verity ♀ (@verityveratee) July 1, 2023
500+ Police stations attacked
100+ Police injured
2500+ Fires in streets
1500+ Cars burnt
234 Buildings burntOnly a Far-Right leader like Modi can put a leash on such animals. #franceriots #Wokeflix pic.twitter.com/bRSs2nI5Yq
— Wokeflix (@wokeflix_) July 1, 2023
More than 1,300 people were arrested in a fourth night of violence in France after the police shooting of a 17-year-old boy.
Forty-five thousand police officers, including special forces, were deployed to respond to rioting across the country on Friday night, with the situation in two big cities – Marseille and Lyon – highlighted as particularly chaotic, with buildings and vehicles torched and stores looted.
The ministry of the interior reported that 1,311 people were arrested overnight, while 79 police officers and gendarmes were injured and 2,500 fires were recorded.
Very vibrant.
💥 French locals being targeted and attacked again tonight by migrant mobs, this time in Bordeaux.💥
France is out of control. Isn't multiculturalism wonderful 🙄
Macron is blaming "social media" and "alcohol" and the UN is blaming the police pic.twitter.com/vSq74shJ3W
— Frantruth (@frantruth) June 30, 2023
White supremacists again …
It is truly horrifying to witness the Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation in Nanterre being vandalized.
This shameful act of disrespect for the memory of the victims of the Holocaust must be unequivocally condemned and those responsible held accountable. pic.twitter.com/B0HT3L9TiF
— European Jewish Congress (@eurojewcong) June 29, 2023
These unsettling scenes are in Lyon, showing a running theme of fireworks in these riots. They have been used to push back police, destroy property, prevent firemen from putting out fires, and also randomly aimed at innocent bystanders to frighten them. #FranceRiots pic.twitter.com/hTJFxBqvVH
— verity ♀ (@verityveratee) July 1, 2023
More video at Fdesouche – 4th night of post Nahel riots (night of Friday June 30 to Saturday July 1)
France endured its worst night of rioting yet on Thursday as violence continued across the country. For the third consecutive evening, youths went on the rampage in most major cities, despite the presence of 40,000 police. Shops were looted, town halls attacked, police stations firebombed and vehicles were hijacked in extraordinary scenes of urban warfare.
Far right?
Les milices fascistes sont à l’œuvre dans le pays.
À Angers des nazillons descendent armés dans les rues pour s’en prendre à des passants.
L’extrême-droite doit être mise hors d’état de nuire. pic.twitter.com/1nJtttBTSD— Thomas Portes (@Portes_Thomas) June 30, 2023
🚨 France Enjoying Some Wonderful Multicultural Enrichment
How can this be possible in France 🇫🇷 ?
😢#FRANCE #Nael #FranceProtests #franceViolence #FranceRiots #war #fusillade pic.twitter.com/Ng6aCKhnnT— 🇮🇪 Gerard Delaney 🔞 🇮🇪 (@Ger_Delaney_40) June 30, 2023
French police said they were “at war” with “savage hordes of vermin” on Friday night as France was rocked by violent waves of riots and looting.
Two of the country’s top police unions threatened a revolt unless Emmanuel Macron’s government restored order after protests broke out over an officer’s shooting of a teenager outside Paris.
“Today the police are in combat because we are at war. Tomorrow we will enter resistance and the government should be aware of this,” they said.
BREAKING: Massive explosions in Kiev 🇺🇦 War is terrible! Send money and everything to stop it!!
🤡 Just kidding 😄 This is France and all European leaders are quiet as f*ck about it bc screw us citizens, right?#straatjihad #FranceRiots #franceViolence pic.twitter.com/WcJ8S8hNZi
— boze witte cisman (@ConvictFluffy) June 30, 2023
The Muslim mob burned down the central and large library of the city of Marseilles this evening. Apparently books are not their thing. The uprising is growing, Macron is gone, the police are gone, the country is in shock. pic.twitter.com/DBnKdaSknA
— Sue (@SimplySusie3) June 30, 2023
Shocking scene in France: A BRI armored vehicle advances between burning vehicles and mortars during riots.
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h/t Mauser
More video at Fdesouche – Live post Nahel riots: Friday day and evening
For years, French police unions argued that officers should get broader discretion over when to shoot at fleeing motorists. Time and again, lawmakers refused.
Finally in 2017, after a string of terrorist attacks, the government relented. Eager to be tough on crime and terrorism, lawmakers passed a bill allowing officers to fire on motorists who flee traffic stops, even when the officers are not in immediate danger.
“For politicians, because this was real politics, it was hard to say no,” recalled Frédéric Lagache, a leader of the police union Alliance Police who pushed forcefully for the law.
Protests over the shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M have spilled into the capital’s affluent areas
President Macron has summoned key ministers to a crisis meeting amid calls for him to declare a state of emergency after a third night of rioting across France.
With the violence intensifying despite the deployment of 40,000 officers including elite units across the country, Macron is under growing pressure to suspend some civil rights in an effort to restore order.
He is to chair the French equivalent of a Cobra meeting — the second in two days — as he struggles for a coherent response to what has spiralled into a national crisis and a challenge to his authority.
France riots: Macron to hold crisis meeting as 667 arrested and violence spreads
Emmanuel Macron is to head another crisis meeting of ministers as the French government struggles to contain an escalation of unrest that has spread from housing estates across the country to the centre of major cities after the police shooting of a teenager earlier this week.
A total of 667 people were arrested across France into the early hours of Friday morning, officials said, as violence continued into a third night of riots triggered by the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent during a traffic stop.
BREAKING ⚡️ French president Macron asks social media to remove 'most sensitive' rioting content.#FranceRiots pic.twitter.com/bpGoikccqg
— Megh Updates 🚨™ (@MeghUpdates) June 30, 2023
France has fallen…
Police are unable to control the migrant and left-wing riots taking place across the country. French media has surrendered and cannot keep track of the number of towns and cities across the country being looted, set on fire, and destroyed.
Islamic attacks,… pic.twitter.com/s0m4CRLjIL
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) June 30, 2023
Rioters in France burning down the largest public library in the city of Marseille. #FranceRiots pic.twitter.com/OMEUtTiy46
— Paul Golding (@GoldingBF) June 30, 2023
Fdesouche has a lot of video – Nahel: live on the third night of riots
Following an incident on Tuesday, June 27th that saw 17-year-old Nael M. shot dead by a policeman in Nanterre, France, after he failed to comply with an order to stop his vehicle—an incident that precipitated two nights of ultra-violent rioting in the multicultural Parisian suburb—portraits of the slain suspect and the officer have emerged.
Here is the video people!
The French police are begging “Nahel M” to cooperate and he stomps on the gas. A cop is hit by his car and fires his gun.
What do you think now? Did Macron lie and pour gasoline on a fire? Is the media lying? pic.twitter.com/RjdLN3R5Go
— National Conservative (@NatCon2022) June 29, 2023
Imagine a police station being firebombed in Canada.
A police station is set alight by Molotov cocktails following the police murder of 17-year-old #Nahel M. the day prior. pic.twitter.com/C37recjSBl
— Ill Will ⏚ (@illwilleditions) June 29, 2023
Video showed officer allegedly telling 17-year-old victim, ‘I’m going to put a bullet in your head’, before he shot him
Youths hurled fireworks and stones at police and torched cars on the fringes of a march in a Paris suburb in memory of a 17-year-old French-Algerian boy shot by police.
The youths disrupted the march, which was led by the teenager’s mother. She and most of the more than 6,000 people who were taking part dispersed after violence broke out, leaving the troublemakers to face armed and helmeted police. Palls of acrid black smoke rose from burning, overturned cars.
France will mobilise 40,000 police officers across the country this evening to deal with the protests.
France police shooting: Angry protesters ablaze car in Paris suburb
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— Economic Times (@EconomicTimes) June 29, 2023
A town hall in a Parisian suburb was set alight on Tuesday night amid unrest over the deadly shooting by police of a 17-year-old.
France’s government announced heightened police presence around Paris and other big cities and called for calm pic.twitter.com/dsvtHQ9bDx
— Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) June 29, 2023
More video at Fdesouche – Second night of riots everywhere in France. Official buildings attacked, police hunted down, businesses set on fire…
Protests and unrest erupted in the Paris region overnight after police shot dead a 17-year-old who failed to stop when ordered to by traffic police.
Video circulating on social media shows a police officer pointing a gun at the driver of a car, before a gunshot is heard. The car then crashes to a stop.
The teenager, named as Nahel, died of bullet wounds in the chest despite help from emergency services.
The officer accused of shooting him has been detained on homicide charges.
Firefighters chased away
A Boulogne-Billancourt, les pompiers sont ciblés #Nanterre pic.twitter.com/0tU99gb7ex
— Pierre Sautarel (@FrDesouche) June 28, 2023
Fdesouche has more video – Ongoing riots in Nanterre, prefecture attacked, school in flames: the riots spread to the Paris suburbs and to the provinces… In Mantes-la-Jolie, the town hall of Val Fourré was set on fire
In France you can now swipe far right.
A new dating site launched this month is aimed at nationalists, “patriots” and those who yearn for a return to traditional gender roles. It specifically welcomes French people whose views veer to the extreme right, who, polling suggests, may need help finding a mate.
According to a recent survey by the polling organisation Ifop, 58 per cent of French people would refuse to sleep with a far-right sympathiser and 65 per cent would rule out becoming their partner.
