A woman holds a sign that reads “The police are racist and kill children”.
(Photo: AP)
Paris From the edge of the Pyrenees, Emmanuel Macron let the French know that the situation after the riots was under control. “Order has been restored,” said the president in the small town of Pau. Macron then followed a mountain stage of the Tour de France, waving from the stage to the audience when the yellow jersey was handed over.
The trip at the end of the week was Macron’s first stay outside of Paris since the serious riots – and it should send a message of normalcy. The night-time violence after a police officer fatally shot 17-year-old Nahel in the Paris suburb of Nanterre had spread to the province of south-western France. In Pau, rioters had, among other things, attacked a police station with an incendiary device.
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