At least 96 people were arrested in various altercations during the night of the French National Holidaybetween Friday and Saturday, which in any case had many fewer incidents than last year, as shown by the 255 vehicles set on fire, 40% less.
The French Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmaninwanted to underline this Saturday morning with the still provisional figures on his Twitter account that “significant drop” in material damage, and attributed it “to our forces of order, their presence and their numerous preventive controls carried out”.
Given the risk of a new outbreak such as the riots that lasted for a week starting on the 27th after the death of a young man in the city of Nanterre Due to a police shot when he was trying to skip a control, Darmanin had decided on a massive deployment of agents for the National Holiday of July 14.
In total, 45,000 police officers and gendarmes took to the streets both the night before and after that July 14, in which 7 of them were injured, when on the same date in 2022 there had been 21.
There were 51 episodes in which they were used fireworks against law enforcement, up from 333 a year earlier.