The 25-year-old victim was handling a firework mortar in the street in Boofzheim on New Year’s Eve.
A 25-year-old man died on the night of Thursday December 31 to Friday January 1, “The head torn off” by a firework mortar in Alsace, we learned from the Bas-Rhin prefecture, while New Year’s Eve in Strasbourg was marked by less urban violence than last year. “A young man of 25 died after handling a mortar” fireworks display in Boofzheim on New Year’s Eve, the prefecture said. The latter had initially mentioned “cardiac arrest”. A 24-year-old man, who accompanied him, had him “The damaged face” and is hospitalized. “They were in the street manipulating” the mortar when the accident occurred, we learned from the gendarmerie. Three other people were injured in the hand in other municipalities in the Bas-Rhin.
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The prefecture of Bas-Rhin, like that of Haut-Rhin, had banned the sale and purchase of fireworks throughout the month of December. Nevertheless, at midnight, firecrackers and mortars resounded throughout the greater Strasbourg area. Residents were dragging them from their homes, the curfew forbidding going out for 8 p.m.
Sixty cars set on fire
Cars were set on fire in various districts of Strasbourg, but in much smaller numbers than on last year’s New Year’s Eve, during which police and firefighters were violently attacked. According to a police union source, about sixty cars were burned. Several people were arrested by the police, but the prefecture did not wish to communicate their number.
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To prevent vehicle fires in Strasbourg, the police system has been reinforced and parking prohibited in several streets and residential areas. Several free and supervised parking lots were made available to residents until January 2 and the sale of fuel at the retail level was banned. “We cannot afford to have the same record as last year. We did our best to make this night go better ”, said the prefect of Bas-Rhin Josiane Chevalier, after a visit to the emergency room of the Hautepierre hospital, to the police and to the firefighters, Thursday at the end of the afternoon. The “evening will be uncompromising,” she warned. Elsewhere in the department, the gendarmerie reported around 1 a.m. “Some fires in garbage cans and pallets, but that remains limited”.
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