France bans buying fireworks for Bastille Day after riots

France has banned the sale, possession and transport of each fireworks during the upcoming Bastille Day festivities.

The authorities issued a decree connected Sunday prohibiting "pyrotechnic articles" for the 14 July celebrations that people France's nationalist day.

The determination comes aft rioting sparked by past month's constabulary sidesplitting of 17-year-old Nahel M by constabulary successful Nanterre.

However, the prohibition does not use to authoritative firework displays organised by section authorities.

"In bid to forestall the hazard of superior disturbances to nationalist bid during the 14 July festivities, the sale, carrying, transport and usage of pyrotechnic articles and fireworks volition beryllium prohibited connected nationalist territory until 15 July inclusively," said the edict, published successful the French authoritative gazette.

Fireworks were a fashionable limb during the week of unrest, which included immoderate of France's worst municipality unit for astir 20 years.

And adjacent successful mean times, events successful nationalist squares and streets connected the evening of Bastille Day person often been disrupted successful erstwhile years by young radical throwing firecrackers.

Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne said that successful summation to the restrictions connected fireworks, a "massive" information beingness would beryllium deployed successful bid to support the bid and "to support the French during these 2 delicate days".

She told Le Parisien paper that galore radical were "quite worried" astir the anticipation of caller incidents of unit during the nationalist holiday.

More than 3,700 radical were taken into constabulary custody successful transportation with the caller protests, including astatine slightest 1,160 minors, according to authoritative figures.

Bastille Day signifies the commencement of the French Revolution, much than 200 years ago.