Your Monday Briefing: A Weekend of Unrest in France
A weekend of protest in France
France deployed 45,000 police officers across the country overnight Friday and Saturday, as violent riots convulsed multiple cities after the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old. The government said that about 2,000 people were arrested over two nights of demonstrations, with protesters burning cars, setting fire to buildings and lighting fireworks outside police stations.
Saturday night was calmer than previous evenings, but two attacks aimed at civic leaders highlighted the tinderbox situation. One mayor said that protesters rammed a car into his home and then set the vehicle on fire, injuring his wife and one of his children. In a separate attack, the police said, rioters had tried to set fire to a car belonging to another mayor.
The funeral: On Saturday, hundreds gathered in and around a mosque in Nanterre, a Paris suburb, to mourn Nahel M., the teenager who was shot and killed. Many saw themselves in the victim, a French citizen of Algerian and Moroccan descent.
Analysis: Last week France enacted a ban on religious symbols in soccer that includes hijabs. The timing was a coincidence, but it has illuminated France’s crisis of identity and inclusion.
Greece’s fatal inaction at sea
Last month, more than 600 people died when a migrant boat, the Adriana, sank in the Mediterranean. A Times investigation using satellite imagery, radio signals, sealed court documents and more than 20 interviews with survivors and officials found that hundreds of deaths could have been prevented.
The Greek authorities have repeatedly said that the Adriana was sailing to Italy. But the Times investigation shows definitively that the Adriana was drifting in a loop for its last six and a half hours.
The designer Rahul Mishra will show his collection at Paris Haute Couture Week today, three years after he became the first Indian designer to do so. The theme for his show is “We, the People,” and it centers the embroiderers of his pieces, many of whom live in rural areas. There are even figurines of artisans sewn into the.
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