SEE: French PM's plans for stopping riots after summer upheaval
Widespread disorder followed the shooting of an unarmed teenager in June
Many shops, like this Nike store in Paris, were looted during the riots that followed the shooting of Nahel Merzouk in JuneVernerie Yann / Shutterstock
Thierry Falconnet, the mayor of Chenôve (Côte-d'Or), whose town hall was burned down by rioters, told France 3 the measures were lacking.
“It is a mixed bag of reactionary and repressive measures. Some of them go in the right direction, but more social measures are needed to balance it,” he said.
Others are even more sceptical.
“They’re trying to dupe mayors asking for security guarantees, and to dupe them with something that I doubt would even work,” Senator Patrick Kanner told Public Sénat.
