SYLVIE CORBET AND ALEX TURNBULL
France will deploy 40,000 police officers overnight to quell violence that engulfed cities and towns in the wake of a deadly police shooting, France’s interior minister said on Thursday.
Scores of police officers have been injured, according to ministers.
The justice minister, Éric Dupond-Moretti, gave a figure of 130 police officers injured.
“All this has to stop,” the minister declared. He gave no details about the types and seriousness of the injuries.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who oversees the police, later gave a higher figure of 170 injured.
He said none of the injuries were life-threatening.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
A French police officer who shot and killed a 17-year-old driver will be investigated for voluntary homicide, following two days of fires and violent protests, prosecutors said Thursday.
Overnight, protesters set cars and public buildings ablaze in Paris
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