As it turns 4.30am in Paris, this is where we’ll wrap up the live blog for now. Here’s an overview of where things stand and the day’s major developments.
The interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said there had been at least 471 arrests in France on Friday and that 45,000 police, including special forces, would be deployed across the country as violence flared for a fourth consecutive night after the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Paris.
Darmanin denounced “unacceptable violence” in Lyon and Marseille but said that nationally it was of “much less intensity” and there were “extremely calm departments”.
Looting was reported in the cities of Lyon, Marseille and Grenoble. Darmanin said “significant reinforcements” were arriving in Marseille, where more than 80 people had been arrested and three police sustained injuries.
President Emmanuel Macron said after a second cabinet crisis meeting that social media was fuelling copycat violence and that state agencies would ask platforms such as Snapchat and TikTok to remove the most “sensitive content”.
Kylian Mbappé, the PSG and France footballer, called for “appeasement” and an end to the “time of violence” in a message on Twitter.
Paris police said 120 people had been arrested in the capital, where officers evacuated the Place de la Concorde. A prefectural decree prohibited “undeclared gatherings around in particular” the Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Élysées, the Tuileries, the Champ-de-Mars and the national assembly from 7pm Friday to 5am Saturday.
Aulnay-sous-Bois mayor Bruno Beschizza issued a decree establishing a citywide curfew of 9pm-5am. Two cities in the Alsace region, Colmar and Mulhouse, established curfews for unaccompanied minors for the next few days.
The interior minister has declared “it’s the republic that will win, not the rioters” as he reported a calm evening in Ile-de-France but denounced “unacceptable violence in Lyon and Marseille”, where 100 people were arrested, Le Monde reports.
Gérald Darmanin told BFMTV in Mantes-la-Jolie, west of Paris, that he was pleased with efforts to try to stem the violence, in particular the 45,000 police mobilised across the country on Friday night.
Darmanin lamented the young age of many rioters, saying “13-, 14-year-old kids … who obviously had better be at home rather than hanging out in the streets”.
He also said:
Darmanin remained cautious about the possibility of declaring a state of emergency, which “has been
called four times in 60 years” , he said, mentioning that in 2005, during previous riots, it had been
declared on the 10th day
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