The photo that has raised blisters: Paris in flames while Macron and his wife go to the Elton John concert

This is the image that has raised blisters in the networks. President Emmanuel Macron he leaves for a concert while Paris burns due to the strong social unrest caused by the death of a young man shot by the police. To appease the protests, a police deployment of 2,000 agents was implemented. It happened on the very long night of Wednesday, June 28, the same one in which the president applauded and sang Candle in the Wind, Crocodile Rock o I’m Still Standingwith his wife, Brigitte. In the photograph, they appear with Sir Elton John and her husband, David Furnishat the emblematic Accord Arena in Paris.

It was a hard and violent night in Paris. 2,000 police officers and gendarmes in the Nanterre neighborhood faced social protests. 31 detainees, smoke canisters and containers on fire. The shooting death of a 17-year-old teenager, on Tuesday the 27th, by a member of the security forces during a traffic control raised this chain of fury.

A young man shot dead by a police officer

The events took place around 8:30 on Tuesday. The young man died from a gunshot wound to the chest. At first, the Police reported an attempted hit-and-run, but a video has denied this version and an agent remains in custody for his alleged responsibility in a crime of homicide, according to the Nanterre Prosecutor’s Office.

Not only Paris rose, but also Toulouse and Nantes. In this context, the posed photograph of the presidential couple at the Elton John concert, who is the holder of the French Legion of Honor medal, emerged on networks. Furnish shared the image on Instagram and from there it jumped to the media. Among them, the Daily Mail. The riots continue and to date there have been 650 arrests. Cars and canopies burned, roads cut. This is the environment. 40,000 agents have been deployed to appease social anger.