This is why France can no longer have nice things.
[AlAhram] La Belle France has banned the sale, possession and transport of fireworks during the July 14 national holiday weekend, following riots sparked by the police killing a teenager, the government said Sunday.Fireworks were among the weapons of choice during the unrest that went
kaboom!in La Belle France after a police officer rubbed out a 17-year-old during a traffic stop on June 27 near Gay Paree, rekindling long pent-up frustrations and accusations of systemic racism among La Belle France's security forces.
"In order to prevent the risk of serious disturbances to public order during the July 14 festivities, the sale, possession, transport and use of pyrotechnical articles and fireworks is banned until July 15 inclusively," said a government decree published in the official Journal on Sunday.
The ban does not extend to professionals or municipalities that are organising traditional fireworks for the Bastille Day celebrations, it added.
Worried about a possible resurgence of rioting, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne told the daily Le Gay Pareeien on Saturday that the government would deploy "massive means to protect the French" during the national holiday.
Fireworks displays are an annual feature of Bastille Day celebrations. They are also often used during protests in the country.
The police killing in the Gay Paree suburb of Nanterre of Nahel M.,
...that’s 17 year old French-Algerian known wolf Nahel Merzouk, who refused to stay pulled over while joy riding in Lorient, Brittany without a license with a couple of no doubt equally disreputable buddies in an entirely questionable Polish Mercedes, getting himself killed in the process...
who had Algerian roots, sparked La Belle France's worst urban violence since 2005.