
Just before 1am on Monday morning, two motorbikes carrying one passenger each stopped at a traffic light on a backstreet(后巷,僻街) near rue de Rivoli(里沃利街,巴黎著名购物街), one of central Paris’s busiest shopping streets.
周一凌晨快1点时,两辆各载一人的摩托车停在里沃利街附近一条后巷的红绿灯前。里沃利街是巴黎市中心最繁华的购物街之一。
“You’ve got to go where there are a lot of people, where they’ve done the shop windows,” said one motorbike rider to another. Minutes later 10 other men, their faces covered with ski balaclavas, came down the street on foot pursued by a police van.(几分钟后,另外10名男子步行沿街走来,脸上戴着滑雪头套,一辆警车在后面追赶。)
“你得去人多的地方,去他们砸过橱窗的地方,”一名摩托车手对另一名说。几分钟后,另外10名男子步行沿街走来,脸上戴着滑雪头套,一辆警车在后面追赶。
Soon after Emmanuel Macron’s televised speech on Sunday night telling the nation it was “unbearable to see our streets ransack(洗劫,搜掠)ed”, groups of men loot(抢劫,掠夺)ed shops in central Paris for hours for a second night running(连续第二夜). Dozens of people attempted to smash windows near Les Halles(巴黎中央市场区) shopping centre and grab goods. Others broke into an electrical shop in Belleville(巴黎北部多元文化街区) in the north of the city.
周日晚上,埃马纽埃尔·马克龙发表电视讲话,称“看到我们的街道被洗劫令人无法忍受”。此后不久,一群群男子在巴黎市中心抢劫商店数小时,连续第二夜作案。数十人试图砸碎莱阿尔购物中心附近的窗户抢夺商品。另一些人则闯入了巴黎北部贝尔维尔的一家电器店。