Mon Jul 3, 2023 – 1:00 pm EDTMon Jul 3, 2023 – 1:02 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — After a sixth night of violence, calls are growing for French President Emmanuel Macron to declare a state of emergency.
Widespread media reports are suggesting that the riots in France – which some police and commentators have described as a state of war – are beginning to subside.
This message is one which follows a weekend in which a local mayor has suffered an attack on his home, and the death of a fireman fighting a blaze in Paris.
Mayor’s home attacked, wife and child injured
In the early hours of Sunday morning, rioters drove a flaming car into the home of a Parisian local politician. The attack took place in L’Haÿ-les-Roses, some five miles from the center of Paris.
“It was an attempted assassination of incredible cowardice,” said Republican mayor Vincent Jeanbrun, who was not home at the time of the attempt on his life.
His wife and two children, aged 5 and 7, were asleep in the house whilst he was at the town hall – as he had been for the previous three nights of rioting.
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