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Interior
minister concedes police ‘lost control’ over looting
Jon
Henley
Europe
correspondent
Over the
weekend, several public buildings including a town hall were attacked and set
ablaze and an estimated 2,000 shops were ransacked and looted, authorities have
said. Nearly 2,400 people – 70% of them adults – were arrested and almost 1,000
police and gendarmes injured.
Interior
minister Laurent Nuñez said 60,000 police and other security forces had been
deployed around the country, but acknowledged it had not been enough to control
determined, organised groups of violent rioters in major cities including
Paris, Marseille and Lyon.
“You
couldn’t look shopkeepers in the eye after hundreds of shops had been looted
and say we hadn’t lost control,” the minister told French radio, but added that
the responsibility of “rioters, looters and ultra-left militants” should not be
glossed over.
The
justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, also said intelligence failings had left the
state vulnerable. “There’s no good policing without good intelligence, he said,
adding that many of those arrested had police records and “about 80%” were
being prosecuted.
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