order from paris in in paris center another night bracing for possible violence, police out in numbers on the boulevard, 871 fires set saturday night compared to friday night 2500, the night before 3900 or so. the number is trending down. if saturday night is a pivot sunday night is going to be a real test if that violence trends down, the center of paris, tourists out the sun setting, people enjoying the evening there. are riot cops on the streets but not the activity there was at this same time saturday. over here, a few more police officers here, they re getting around the city on these small vehicles racing around to try to stay on top of any potential protest and just looking around down here, just as it s falling
least 157 people overnight after a much calmer night of protests. violent demonstration, of course, erupted last week following the police shooting of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop. about 45,000 security forces are still deployed across the country. french president emmanuel macron is meeting with top officials today to discuss the next steps. i want to go to cnn s nic robertson live from just outside paris. nic, the question i watched throughout the course of the last couple days is does last night and the easing of tensions at least slightly suggest that a turning point is coming? reporter: yeah, it kind of does. look at the metric of fires which i think over the past few days has been a good metric of how big this whole protest is, how many people involved. 350 fires reported. last night 871, the night before, 2,500 the night before that, 3,900 almost the night before that. so this trajectory has been coming down. city halls, this is one of them, 99 of them, have been attack
attempted murder under way. the prosecutor said that the mayor s wife broke her shin bone. she s local politician. many french politicians have expressed solidarity with the family. this was marseille in south. these protests after the shooting of a 17 year old boy, his funeral was held on saturday. 0ur correspondent sofia bettiza has this update from lille, in the north of france. last night, for a fifth night in a row, there have been violent protests across france. we had an update from the interior ministery saying that that 719 people have been arrested, 45 police officers have been injured and 871 fires were started just last night. here in lille, like many other places across france,
murder is underway. the prosecutor said that the mayors wife broke her shin bone. she s also a local politician. the prime minister has been visiting that area outside the centre of paris in solidarity. and we have some other pictures of what happened overnight. this is marseille in the south of france. all of these people are out on the streets night after night after the shooting on tuesday of that 17 year old boy, whose funeral was actually held on saturday, yesterday. our correspondent sofia bettiza has this update from lille, in the north of france. last night, for a fifth night in a row, there have been violent protests across france. we had an update from the interior ministery saying that that 719 people have been arrested, 45 police officers have been injured and 871 fires were started just last night. here in lille, like many other
he was in his office in the overnight hours working late here. it was his wife and two young children, a 5-year-old and 7-year-old. the protesters tried to set the house on fire. his wife and children ran away to escape. his wife and one of the children were injured. that s why the prime minister, the interior minister and the mayor are all meeting inside here in his offices to highlight this situation. the prosecutor, the local prosecutor says it was attempted murder. so making a really strong political message out of that particular incident last night. but overall just to give you one metric that sort of is easy to grasp, the number of fires the government says was set around the country, 871 last night. previous night, 2560. previous night almost 2,900. so the incidents of violence, number of arrests, the number of police officers injured, the number of police buildings, schools, city halls damaged