French Interior Minister: We Will Deploy 40,000 Police Across France

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told reporters that 40,000 police officers will be deployed across France this Thursday evening after riots broke out throughout the country during the night due to the police shooting of a young man of North African descent on Tuesday during a traffic stop in a suburb of Paris. Darmanin added, "The state must be firm in its response; tonight, 40,000 police officers will be mobilized, including 5,000 in the Paris area, compared to the 9,000 deployed yesterday."