Okaz/Saudi Gazette

JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s embassy in France urged the Saudi citizens residing in the country to keep utmost caution and stay away from places of protests. The embassy called on the Saudi students and their families to follow the instructions of the French authorities in this regard.

This is in the wake of protests and unrest that broke out in a number of suburbs of the French capital Paris, and other regions following the death of a student who was allegedly shot by police during a traffic stop. Curfew was declared in several regions. The unrest began on Tuesday after police shot dead a 17-year-old boy of Algerian descent, named as Nahel M, as he drove away from a traffic stop in the Parisian suburb town of Nanterre.

The Saudi Cultural Attaché in France and Switzerland stressed that all students, scholarship students and their families should take the utmost care and caution and avoid going to places of unrest, with a flare up of tension and clashes in several regions of France.

The attaché called on the citizens to contact its emergency number (+33630243383), as well as to communicate with the embassy in the event of any emergency cases.