{"id":207574,"date":"2020-05-20T12:40:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=207574"},"modified":"2020-05-22T06:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T06:16:16","slug":"riot-police-deployed-as-youths-set-cars-ablaze-in-paris-suburbs-following-death-of-young-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=207574","title":{"rendered":"Riot police deployed as youths set cars ablaze in Paris suburbs following death of young man"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sudip Kar-Gupta \u2013 Reuters May 20, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Riot police were deployed in force as youths set cars ablaze in some low-income housing estates in the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Paris\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Paris<\/strong><\/span><\/a> suburbs overnight, online news reports and postings on Twitter showed on Wednesday, amid tensions heightened by the<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a><\/strong><\/span> lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The latest unrest in the banlieues \u2013 high-rise, low-income neighbourhoods \u2013 flared after an 18-year-old died last weekend in a motorbike accident in the suburb of Argenteuil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An investigation into the death of Sabri Choubi was ongoing, said the prosecutor\u2019s department for the district of Pontoise, which handles judicial matters for Argenteuil. It added that initial findings did not show Choubi\u2019s motorcycle had been in a collision with a police car, as some of the victim\u2019s associates had alleged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Officials at the Paris police department could not be immediately reached for comment on the unrest overnight, but the AnonymeCitoyen twitter feed and residents in the suburb of Argenteuil posted videos and photographs of burnt out cars and riot police in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Residents in the nearby suburb of Bezons also posted videos on Twitter of a large fire, though it was unclear what was burning.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">? &#8211; Tensions signal\u00e9s dans la cit\u00e9 des Sycomores \u00e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bezons?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bezons<\/a> (95) suite au r\u00e9cents \u00e9v\u00e9nements \u00e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Argenteuil?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Argenteuil<\/a>. Important incendie d\u00e9clar\u00e9. (@MerciStavooo)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qYtHcoWTh6\">https:\/\/t.co\/qYtHcoWTh6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anonyme Citoyen (@AnonymeCitoyen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnonymeCitoyen\/status\/1262886151364501505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">France\u2019s banlieues are frequently flashpoints of anger over social and economic inequality and allegations of heavy-handed policing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/paris-riots-suburbs-banlieues-police-fire-crash-bezons-argenteuil-a9523511.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is now routine in French inner cities. The latest unrest follows the death of a young man in a motorcycle crash, which residents are blaming on police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-france"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207576,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207574\/revisions\/207576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}