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Re: Macron Deploys Special Forces Commandos as BRUTAL CHAOS ERUPTS Across France
INTO THE FRAY Macron Deploys Special Forces Commandos to Reinforce 45,000 Cops as Fifth Night of Violence ERUPTS Across France.
The BRUTAL CHAOS in French Cities Have Been Plunged Into 'War' Following The Police Killing of 17-Year-Old Nahel Merzouk on Tuesday.
BBC NEWS 2 JULY 2023
Since the killing, France has been plunged into "war" as police armoured cars and heavily armed paramilitary units were seen moving to confront gangs cutting a swathe of devastation across the nation.
President Macron dispatched the elite GIGN commandos after hundreds of people have gathered to bury the teen today.
The GIGN are France's top hostage rescue unit and are mobilised in critical circumstances involving counterterrorism, national threat and protection of government officials.
According to The Telegraph, Grégory Doucet, the mayor of Lyon, where dozens of police officers were injured on Friday night – including several by gunfire – called for urgent reinforcements, saying police in the city were “overwhelmed”.
And following a crisis meeting, he said Lyon "has been in the grip of riots of unprecedented intensity, damage and violence”.
The GIGN arrived in Marseille last night, according to cops in Bouches-du-Rhône.
Their arrival follows a night of terrorising clashes between riot police forces and protestors on Friday.
As well as the elite GIGN, armoured vehicles and helicopters were being sent to back-up security in Marseille.
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