The department of Côte-d’Or, theater of urban violence Thursday, February 25, 2021, then in the night from Thursday to Friday. According to our information, according to a press release from the Alliance police nationale union, and as indicated by our colleagues from Good public, police officers were targeted by projectiles in the district of Fontaine d’Ouche, in Dijon. In the Grésilles district, there was an attempted fire in a gymnasium whose door was broken. Garbage cans burned in Chenôve and a police station was targeted in Beaune.
Police officers targeted at Fontaine d’Ouche
The first violence took place at Fontaine d’Ouche. Around 4 p.m. Thursday the municipal police were targeted, by “the jet of a corrosive liquid resembling acid”, indicates the union to France Bleu Bourgogne. Analyzes are carried out to precisely determine the origin of the product.
In the early evening, rebelote. At around 6 p.m., a national police vehicle this time was the target of projectiles. they have “broken part of the vehicle” indicates Alliance, with what could be “stones or bolts”.
Garbage fires in Chenôve
In the evening, there were at least two garbage fires in Chenôve, around two in the morning.
An attempted fire at Les Grésilles
In the night, around 1 a.m., the door of a gymnasium in the Grésilles district was broken. A fire has gone inside, “aided by spilled hydrocarbons”, indicates the union. “The manifest intention to destroy cannot be denied”Alliance continues in its press release.
Beaune police station targeted
We move away from the Dijon metropolis, and we take the direction of Beaune. A priori unrelated to the aforementioned violence, a police station was the target of projectiles by “about thirty individuals”, informs the union, which indicates that “The situation calmed down when a vehicle from the Dijon Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) arrived as reinforcements with a canine unit”. The union also speaks “outrages”.
A link with the announcement of “republican reconquest districts”?
Can we see there a link with the announcement Thursday of the classification of two districts of the metropolis in “districts of republican reconquest”? “It’s been a lot the same day that there is this announcement”, admits Stéphane Ragonneau, regional secretary of the Alliance police nationale union. An investigation is opened, entrusted to the DDSP (Departmental Directorate of Public Security).
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