Emmanuel Macron was filmed dancing the night away while rioters took to the streets again for a third successive night on Thursday following the ‘execution’ killing of a teenager in Paris.
Amid the looting of high-end shopfronts along the Rue de Rivoli in central Paris, anger continued to mount as footage showed the French president partying with Elton John.
He was filmed at Paris’s Accor Arena, watching the singer on his farewell tour, while rioters caused mayhem in the capital following the fatal shooting of a French-Algerian 17-year-old identified as Nahel on Tuesday.
Gangs were filmed pillaging shops last night – targeting Zara and Nike stores as well as the high-end shopfront next to the Louvre and the Jardin des Tuileries. Swarms of looters were filmed running into the outlets and smashing windows.
France’s interior ministry said some 249 officers were injured in last night’s violence as Macron called an emergency meeting within his government following the violence and unrest.
As the officer responsible for the death of Nahel, 17, was remanded in custody charged with murder, mobs stormed into the Chatelet shopping complex close to Notre Dame Cathedral.
‘Dozens of youths smashed the windows of sports stores, and then started stealing clothes and shoes’ said a police spokesman.
‘Businesses hit included a Nike store, fashion boutiques and the Samaritaine department store.
‘The attacks spread to other businesses, including a Five Guys fast food restaurant which was vandalised and then set on fire.’
There were similar scenes in cities and towns across France in the early hours of Friday morning, particularly in the southern city of Marseille.
Protesters erected barricades, set cars aflame and shot fireworks at police as tensions grew. More than 600 people were arrested around the country as the government struggled to restore order.
Armoured police vehicles rammed through the charred remains of cars that had been flipped and set ablaze in the north-western Paris suburb of Nanterre, where the officer shot the 17-year-old on Tuesday.
On the other side of Paris, protesters lit a fire at the city hall of the suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois and set a bus depot ablaze in Aubervilliers. The French capital also saw fires and some stores ransacked.
Protesters erected barricades, set cars aflame and shot fireworks at police as tensions grew
that’s what you get when you let 3rd world primitive goons into a 1st world country. thats leftist theory for you.