Hundreds of degraded businesses, 2,000 people judged, a bill of 650 million euros for insurers… More than two months after the riots which followed the death of young Nahel, following a refusal to comply, the balance sheet is bitter. However, are the measures taken by the government sufficient to repair the damage and prevent the recurrence of this degree of violence? “No”, answers lawyer Thibault de Montbrial, president of the Center for Reflection on Homeland Security and guest of the Great interview with Europe 1-CNews this Friday morning.
“Dust Under the Carpet”
“What worries me is to have heard in the weeks that followed, the President of the Republic and Élisabeth Borne said that we will have to reflect and ask ourselves why we have come to this when it has been fifteen or twenty years that all security specialists have drawn attention to the recurring risk of an explosion of violence of this nature, urban violence in France”, he reproaches. For the lawyer, the findings are not to be made but have already been made, and he is now asking for concrete actions.
“They are still going to set up I don’t know what commission of reflection and it is a way of putting the dust under the carpet”, he continues, specifying that it is “certain” that riots could reproduce in the future. “The Ministry of the Interior reacted very well. On the other hand, if it had lasted a few more days when for five nights, we had more than 45,000 civil servants deployed in the field – with the resulting human wear and tear, while the stocks of intermediate weapons ammunition have been considerably depleted and weapons of war could have been used by the thugs against the police – there it is certain that we would have changed our appearance and obviously there is always the risk of that happening,” he concludes.
In a circular sent to the prosecutor’s office on June 30, Éric Dupond-Moretti promised to provide a “rapid, firm and systematic” criminal response against the perpetrators of urban violence. According to the Interior Ministry, nearly 4,000 people were arrested after eight nights of riots.