The turmoil in France, Macro asks parents to keep teenagers at home

The protests have resulted so far with the arrest of around 900 people.

After a second crisis meeting with senior ministers, Macron confirmed that social media platforms such as Snapchat and TikTok played a significant “rol in promoting acts of violence during this week's riots.

Macron said his government would work with technology companies to establish procedures for “removing the most sensitive content”.

He did not specify the content he had in mind, but said he expects a “breath responsibility from these” platforms.

A fireman trying to extinguish the fire of a burning car in Nanterre. June 29, 2023.

French authorities also plan to search, when it is useful “, the identities “those using these social networks to call for unrest or to exacerbate violence”, the French president said.

Macron said one-third of the individuals arrested on Thursday night were new “, sometimes many young people” and that “is the responsibility of parents” to keep their children at home.

The French leader's statements followed the third night of riots across France since a police officer shot and killed his teenager on Tuesday in the outskirts of Paris.

Protesters erected barricades, lit fires, and fired fireworks against police, which responded with tear gas, water balls and stun grenades.

The Macroni government has deployed 40,000 officers to restore order and make arrests for the behaviour it described as unacceptable and unwarranted “”.

Macron did not declare a state of emergency, a tactic used by a previous French government in 2005 to eliminate the riots after the accident death of the two boys as they fled the police.