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CNN —Hundreds of people marched on Monday in support of a French mayor whose house was attacked by a burning car, as the country entered a second week gripped by violent protests and riots. A large crowd in L’Haÿ-les-Roses, a suburb of Paris, showed solidarity with Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun, whose house was rammed by the vehicle early on Sunday morning. The incident injured his wife and one of his children, Jeanbrun said earlier, calling it an assassination attempt. Jeanbrun told the crowd that "democracy was attacked." The wave of protests started after a police officer shot dead Nahel Merzouk, 17, during a traffic stop.

Persons: Vincent Jeanbrun, Jeanbrun, “, ”, Stephanie Lecocq, Emmanuel Macron, Macron, Nahel Merzouk, I’m, BMFTV Organizations: CNN, BFMTV, Reuters, ” France’s Ministry of Interior, Sunday Locations: L’Haÿ, Paris, France, Nadia, Nanterre

☆ Tensions on France's streets ease, fewer arrests overnight
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The interior ministry said 157 people were arrested overnight, down from over 700 arrests the night before and over 1,300 on Friday night. Three of the 45,000 police officers deployed overnight were injured, the ministry said, while around 350 buildings and 300 vehicles were damaged, according to provisional figures. The grandmother of Nahel, the teenager shot dead by police during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb, said on Sunday she wanted the nationwide rioting triggered by his killing to end. "We were modest, we hadn't have much, but we wanted to overcome it, we had hope that we would make it with hard work." At this stage, everything indicates the people who attacked his home were youths from the same suburb, he added.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Nahel, Vincent Jeanbrun, Jeanbrun, BFM, Les Republicains, Tassilo Hummel, Lincoln, Alison Williams Organizations: Thomson Locations: France, North, Paris, l'Hay, L'Hay

As Jeanbrun's wife and children, aged 5 and 7, took flight through the back yard, they were targeted with fireworks. Jeanbrun told Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne his wife had had surgery to a broken leg and faced a three-month rehabilitation. "While attempting to shield them and fleeing the attackers, my wife and one of my children were hurt," the mayor said. Jeanbrun's town hall has been the target of attack for several nights since Tuesday's shooting and has been protected with barbed wire and barricades. "I didn’t think we'd ever live through something like this," the mayor told another bystander who wished his wife well.

Persons: Vincent Jeanbrun, Melanie, Jeanbrun, Elisabeth Borne, Yves Herman The, Elizabeth Pineau, Benoit van Overstraeten, Richard Lough, Alison Williams Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Paris, L'Hay, France, Jeanbrun's

☆ Home of French mayor ram-raided and torched by rioters
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Vincent Jeanbrun, mayor of the southern suburb of L'Hay-les-Roses, said his wife and one of their two children, aged five and seven, were injured as they fled the building in the early hours. Jeanbrun, from the conservative Les Republicains party, was not at home but at the town hall during the incident. The town hall has been the target of attack for several nights since the shooting and has been protected with barbed wire and barricades. "While attempting to shield them and fleeing the attackers, my wife and one of my children got hurt." Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau and Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Alison WilliamsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Vincent Jeanbrun, Jeanbrun, Elizabeth Pineau, Benoit Van Overstraeten, Alison Williams Organizations: Thomson Locations: Paris, L'Hay

☆ Mayor says home ‘rammed’ and set on fire as France detains hundreds more protesters
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Jake Kwon Heather Chen Xiaofei Xu Martin Goillandeau Alex Hardie Alex Stambaugh | Jake Kwon | Heather Chen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

He said the mayor’s wife and two children, aged 5 and 7, fled through the back garden. While running away, the mayor’s wife hurt her shin which “appears to be broken,” according to the prosecutor. His mother, Mounia, told television station France 5 on Friday that she blamed only the officer who shot her son for his death. Hundreds detainedWhile the French government has deployed security forces and riot police across the country, the unrest continued with another night of protests. More than 700 people were detained across France overnight, according to a provisional tally from the Interior Ministry.

Persons: ”, Vincent Jeanbrun, “, ” Jeanbrun, Stéphane Hardouin, Hardouin, Nahel, Mounia, Gérald Darmanin Organizations: CNN, France, Interior Ministry, China’s Locations: Paris, Jeanbrun’s, France, Nanterre, China, Marseille

☆ Mayors Are Targeted in Fifth Night of Protests Across France
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Emma Bubola | Vivek Shankar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The mayor of a suburb of Paris said on Sunday that protesters had rammed a car into his home and then set the vehicle on fire, injuring his wife and one of his children, as violent demonstrations across France over the police killing of a 17-year-old stretched into a fifth night. “Last night, a milestone was reached in terms of horror and ignominy,” the mayor, Vincent Jeanbrun, of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, a town to the south of the capital, said in a statement on Twitter. In a separate attack, the police said on Twitter that rioters had tried to set fire to a car belonging to another mayor, in the town of La Riche, near the city of Tours, southwest of Paris. Across the rest of France, Saturday evening had generally been calmer than recent nights, during which hundreds of protests have taken place nationwide. But still, local news media reported rioting, looting and clashes in Marseille, France’s second-largest city, and hundreds more people were arrested.

Persons: Vincent Jeanbrun, France’s Organizations: Twitter Locations: Paris, France, La Riche, Tours, Marseille

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