PARIS ¨C The deadly shooting of a teenager, a French citizen of Algerian and Moroccan descent, by a police officer outside Paris has ignited a wave of violent protest that once again confronts French President Emmanuel Macron with turmoil in the streets and has revived accusations of endemic racism in France¡¯s law enforcement agencies.
The tumult from the police shooting of a 17-year-old in the western suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday comes just weeks after nationwide demonstrations over Macron¡¯s decision to raise the retirement age, presenting the French leader with a renewed wave of popular fury. A video showing the shooting stoked the outrage.
After 180 people were arrested and 170 officers injured during protests Wednesday night. Gerald Darmanin, the country¡¯s hard-line interior minister, said that 40,000 police officers would be deployed across the country Thursday evening to ensure that ¡°a night of intolerable violence against symbols of the Republic¡± was not repeated.
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