French police have requested assistance from Israel to help manage the ongoing protests across the country following the killing of a teenager by a cop at a traffic stop, according to Israeli media reports on Monday.
The Israeli Police Commission received a fax from the French police to inquire about how to manage the crisis they are dealing with, The Israel Hayom newspaper reported.
According to the newspaper, Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai ordered his intelligence and operations departments to study the protests in France and the police reaction before, during and after the teenager’s death.
There was no comment from the French authorities on the report.
France has seen a wave of violent protests since a police officer shot dead 17-year-old Nahel M. in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on June 27.
Protesters attacked shops and police forces, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, and set fire to hundreds of buildings and cars.
France and Israel have long shared close ties; France banned pro-Palestinian protests in 2021, in Paris against Israeli air raids in the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza and crackdowns in the occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank.
