Three young men were stabbed on Saturday in Nancy against the backdrop of a settling of accounts, leading to the custody of four Chechens, the secretary general of the Meurthe-et-Moselle prefecture said on Sunday. confirming information from L’Est Républicain.
Saturday evening, “about fifteen vehicles and forty people from the Chechen community burst into the Haut-du-Lièvre district with a desire to fight it out and attacked young people at random, according to the testimonies of the inhabitants of the district”, said Julien Le Goff, sub-prefect and secretary general of the prefecture.
“The violence could have been much greater without the strong and rapid presence of the police”, he underlined, specifying that the three young victims were “slightly injured”.
Chechen teenager assaulted
This episode of violence came after the attack a few days ago in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy – where a Chechen community lives – of a teenager of Chechen origin, which triggered a desire for revenge.
About thirty police officers, who were on alert, arrived quickly on the spot Saturday evening, proceeding to the arrest of four Chechens, placed in police custody.
“It is a situation of high tension which calls for a reinforced presence of the police”, declared to AFP the mayor (PS) of Nancy Mathieu Klein, who went to the scene on Saturday. “Many families have been afraid all week that their children will be caught up in settling scores,” he said, explaining that he understood the “very strong emotion” in this usually “calm” neighborhood.
“It is inadmissible and unacceptable to take justice into your own hands” and “everything will be done to bring to justice the perpetrators of the stabbings”, declared the sub-prefect Julien Le Goff.
“They are organized in a military way and have the capacity to quickly bring people from Reims, Paris or even Mulhouse. We are not facing petty neighborhood violence, we are well beyond that,” explains a close friend of the community to L’Est Républicain.
Gunshots in the night
Shots, obviously of large caliber, were fired in the night from Saturday to Sunday in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy.
Half a CRS company must support reinforced police forces in the Haut-du-Lièvre district and in the neighboring town of Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy on Sunday.
A flagrant investigation for refusal to comply, violence in meetings with weapons and transport of category D weapons, has been opened, reveals L’Est Républicain. Investigation conducted jointly by the departmental security and the judicial police.
A decision will be taken on a possible opening of judicial investigation by the parquet floor of Nancy at the end of the police custody of the four arrested, police custody having started this Saturday, at 7:30 p.m., and which should be extended.
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