PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday (Jul 4) met with hundreds of French officials to begin exploring the 'deeper reasons' for the country's plunge into riots
The Elysee palace meeting with around 250 mayors, whose municipalities suffered damage over a week of violence, comes as the authorities reported a much calmer night across the country.
More than 150 vehicles had been set ablaze, and hundreds of fires started in rubbish bins or other public areas. At the gathering of mayors, Macron was hoping to"start the painstaking, long-term work needed to understand the deeper reasons that led to these events", an official at the president's office said.
"With the first crime, we need to find a way of sanctioning the families financially and easily," he said, according to comments reported by the Parisien newspaper.French businesses were meanwhile counting the cost of the seven nights of rioting which left countless shops and other outlets vandalised.
Despite the fall in violent incidents"everybody worries that it may be a false calm", said Abdelhamid Faddeoui, who runs private security firm Aetos Securite Privee.Employers' organisations called on the government to create an emergency fund"for those who lost everything".
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