President Emmanuel Macron and his top ministers are to meet on Sunday evening to respond to the unrest that has shaken France after a fifth night of looting and rioting sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager, reports the Financial Times.
Macron is due to discuss the crisis with ministers including prime minister Élizabeth Borne, interior minister Gérald Darmanin and justice minister Éric Dupond-Moretti.
Parisian authorities are set to deploy 7,000 extra police officers in the capital on Sunday after the home of the mayor of the suburb L’Haÿ-les-Roses was attacked on Saturday night, agencies reported.
“A line was crossed,” Laurent Nuñez, Paris police prefect, said of the attack, speaking on BFM TV. Borne, who travelled with Darmanin, described the attacks on mayors as “intolerable”.
About 150 town halls or municipal buildings have been attacked across France in recent days, the president of the association of mayors told the AFP news agency.