According to reports, this week, rioters protesting the police shooting of a 17-year-old teenager on Tuesday reportedly destroyed a memorial in France remembering people who were deported from the nation by the Nazis.
The Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation, a monument built in 1962 in a suburb of Paris to honor the estimated 200,000 persons who were deported from France to Nazi Germany during World War II, was the focus of the damage.
This would include Gypsies, French employees who were sent to work camps, and Jews who would suffer from the Holocaust.
It is truly horrifying to witness the Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation in Nanterre being vandalized.
This shameful act of disrespect for the memory of the victims of the Holocaust must be unequivocally condemned and those responsible held accountable. pic.twitter.com/B0HT3L9TiF
— European Jewish Congress (@eurojewcong) June 29, 2023
Since violent protests started after Nahel M., a 17-year-old, was shot by police when they tried to halt the car he was in, hundreds have been detained in France. Nahel M.’s car was under traffic stop attempt by French police, but he failed to halt and proceeded past a red light.
Nahel M. was ordered to exit the car by the police when they eventually caught up to it and became trapped in traffic. According to Nanterre prosecutor Pascal Prache, a cop shot the boy as the automobile tried to leave the scene.
Rioters have set fire to vehicles, buildings, and police using pyrotechnics.
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It would be a lot less messy if crooks just stopped trying to ease due penalties for their crimes, and learned to argue the merits of arrest at the station with lawyers present. Parents,teach your kids that, for everyone’s sake!