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French President Emmanuel Macron is urging parents to keep teenagers at home and has blamed social media for fueling the rioting that has spread dramatically across France following the fatal
The latest protests erupted after Nahel, a boy of Algerian descent, was shot dead by the French police for allegedly not having a driver’s license. This comes just months after the country was rocked by protests regarding President Macron’s highly controversial pension reform.
While the situation appeared to be somewhat calmer compared to previous nights, turmoil gripped several cities across the country.
Protests continued into the early morning of Saturday in defiance of a ban announced a day earlier on all “large-scale events” in the country, with rioting breaking out in several cities.
Despite an appeal to parents by President Emmanuel Macron to keep their children at home, street clashes be...