Tajani's "message of caution" for Italians going to France

Tajani's "message of caution" for Italians going to France

The night of Friday 30 June was tense and violent once again in cities such as Marseille, Lyon, Grenoble and Saint-Etienne. Overall, the situation was calmer in other cities than the night before, especially in the Paris region, where several cities had enacted curfews for unaccompanied minors. The Interior Ministry announced Saturday that 1.311 people were arrested nationwide overnight (up from 667 the previous night) and 79 police officers and gendarmes were injured (up from 249 the previous day). Interviewed on BFM-TV, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin said: “It is the Republic that will win, not the rioters” and condemned the “unacceptable violence in Lyon and Marseille”.

After the flare-ups of the previous evenings, the nature of the movement has already changed. Friday was a day of looting. It started very early in the afternoon, in broad daylight for the first time since the death of Nahel M., the 17-year-old killed on Tuesday in Nanterre by a police officer during a traffic stop.

From the Farnesina there is a "message of caution" for Italians "who travel to France", invited "to follow what the press says, to follow the advice of the police and not to go near places where there are clashes because it can be very dangerous." Thus the Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, spoke at Caffè Europa on Rai Radio 1.

“It's an issue that concerns France exclusively” what is happening in the country after the death of 17-year-old Nahel, he underlined, with "the reaction of the people" which has "provoked violence throughout France", where "evidently there is a malaise especially in the large French suburbs and this then exploded when there was this very sad episode that should not have happened".