Parisian Holocaust Memorial Trashed
The vandalized monument honors the 200,000 people who were sent from Vichy France to German concentration camps during World War II.
The vandalized monument honors the 200,000 people who were sent from Vichy France to German concentration camps during World War II.
While the French government had not yet called a state of emergency on Thursday night, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said “the state’s response will be extremely firm.”
Prior to his latest run-in with the police and his subsequent and untimely death, the teenager had a total of 15 entries in the criminal records file.
Two town halls were set ablaze in the second night of race riots, while the country’s politically powerful police unions have turned against the Élysée Palace, saying their officers are being turned into scapegoats.
The French establishment has been quick to condemn the police for structural racism as violence engulfed the western Parisian suburb of Nanterre Tuesday night.
The news comes days after a Jordanian migrant with three deportation orders was arrested for allegedly raping a woman in the emergency room at a Parisian hospital.
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