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In Marseille, the executive plays appeasement to avoid conflagration

6/28/2023, 5:17:44 PM

Highlights: Emmanuel Macron closes this Wednesday a three-day visit to the Phocaean city where he mainly walked the popular cities. Since the day before, the images of Nahel, killed at 17 by a policeman in Nanterre, provoke indignation. Especially in these neighborhoods where the relationship with the police has long deteriorated. The specter of several nights of generalized violence throughout the country, as in 2005 after the deaths of Zyed and Bouna, is still very much alive.


STORY - The President of the Republic deemed "inexplicable, inexcusable" the death of "a teenager".

Special Envoy to Marseille.

Between the dilapidated towers of the Benza district in Marseille, Emmanuel Macron closes this Wednesday a three-day visit to the Phocaean city where he mainly walked the popular cities. Since the day before, the images of Nahel, killed at 17 by a policeman in Nanterre, provoke indignation. Especially in these neighborhoods where the relationship with the police has long deteriorated. The president refrained from commenting on Tuesday.

After a night of indignant reactions and urban violence in the Hauts-de-Seine, the executive is worried about contagion in the rest of France while more isolated incidents have already occurred in several other cities, including Bordeaux, relegating to the background the announcements of the head of state against substandard housing, expected by the inhabitants who came to meet him. The specter of several nights of generalized violence throughout the country, as in 2005 after the deaths of Zyed and Bouna is...

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