Death of Nahel: the executive hardens the tone in the face of urban violence

“Mobilized to support the return to calm. This is the message that the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, continued to hammer home on Thursday, the day after another night of violence, two days after the death in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) of young Nahel by police fire. A sign of the gravity of the situation but also of the executive’s desire to regain control, Emmanuel Macron decided to trigger and chair an interministerial crisis unit on Thursday morning from the Ministry of the Interior.

The opportunity for the President of the Republic to convey to the participants messages of “public appeat and respect, vigilance of all on the possible desires to manipulate violence, firmness against the counter-Republican attackers and construction of all the scenarios according to the hours to come, ”according to his entourage.