Analysis: French cities are again combustible with widespread destruction of property and mass looting over the last three nights, and this time around the outrage may be much harder for President Emmanuel Macron to contain.
Firefighters extinguish a car burned during night clashes in the Alma district of Roubaix, in northern France, on Friday. The clashes between protesters and police follow the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed earlier this week by a French police officer in the Paris suburb of Nanterre during a traffic stop.
Scenes captured overnight on social media videos suggest the violence has reached a scale unseen in more than three decades. Specifically, local activists blame a 2017 change to French law that they claim lowered the threshold for police to fire their weapons at people they believe might be about to commit a serious crime.
The result he says was a law adjustment that gave police more leeway in deciding when to fire their weapons, especially if they feel a potential suspect is "likely" to put someone else in danger. "They are prone to happen because there is no political will to change the dogma of the police. And there is even less political will to clamp down on the use of deadly force by the police."
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