Paris mayor says protesters rammed car into his house
He said his wife and one of his children were hurt in the incident
He said his wife and one of his children were hurt in the incident
He said his wife and one of his children were hurt in the incident
He said his wife and one of his children were hurt in the incident
The mayor of Paris Vincent Jeanbrun said his home was attacked early Sunday morning after protesters rammed a car into his home. Jeanburn took to Twitter and called the attack an “an assassination attempt”.
He said his wife and one of his children were hurt in the incident. “At 1:30 a.m., while I was at the city hall like the past three nights, individuals rammed their car upon my residence before setting fire to it to burn my house, inside which my wife and my two young children slept,” Jeanburn wrote.
He said, “it was an attempted murder of unspeakable cowardice.” France has been roiled in protests for five days now. A policeman shooting a 17-year-old boy for failing to stop when asked to triggered the protests. Nahel Merzouk was a 17-year-old boy of Algerian descent whose funeral took place on Saturday at a mosque in Nanterre amid a heavy security presence.
Security forces and riot have been deployed across the country. On Saturday, 427 people were detained. The night before that 1,300 people were detained and about 2,560 fires were reported on public roads.
Nahel, who was asked to stop for reckless driving, reportedly had no criminal record. However, there were incidents where he had evaded police checks. Also, he had received a summons to appear before a juvenile court in September.