France police shooting riots: Mayors rally in front of townhalls in anti-riot display
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00:00 We can now go across to France 24's Lisa Kamenow standing by at the sidelines of a
00:04 march taking place in Les Lerouses in support of the mayor whose home was targeted over
00:11 the weekend.
00:13 Tell us what's happening where you are Lisa.
00:15 Yes Delano, so I'm currently just on the side of this march.
00:21 We are located outside the main marketplace of Les Lerouses.
00:27 As you can see behind me there are several hundreds of people gathered and they are currently
00:31 listening to their town mayor Vincent Jeanbrun speaking about the violence that has swept
00:38 across towns in France this week but notably about the violent attack on his home which
00:45 happened over the weekend.
00:47 Now behind me you can hear them clapping.
00:49 Now these people are not just residents of Les Lerouses, you also have the town hall
00:54 representatives, the local councillors and also council representatives from other communes
00:59 across the region of the ĂŽle-de-France.
01:02 So this is a very big and important march.
01:05 It's sending an important message.
01:06 It is the first march where we have this many politicians and deputies present since the
01:13 start of the violence and unrest at the beginning of last week.
01:17 Now Jeanbrun, Vincent Jeanbrun is also joined by right wing political party leaders such
01:22 as Les RĂ©publicains Eric Ciotti, you also have the president of the senate GĂ©rard Larger
01:28 and you have Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Île-de-France region.
01:31 So a lot of big names present here today and again the main message is to condemn the violence
01:37 that swept across the country last week but also to call to the restoration of order in
01:43 the Republic.
01:45 Now as you can hear the mayor speaking behind me, he's currently thanking everyone for their
01:49 support and he is trying to rally everyone up and tell them that we will not give up
01:55 and we will respond firmly to restore peace and order in our communes.
02:01 Lisa, thank you very much for that.
02:03 Lisa Kamenow reporting now.