Fourth Night of Riots in France: Major Clashes and Widespread Violence in Lyon, Saint-Etienne, and Grenoble

Fourth night of riots in France, and sectors more or less affected by the violence. The cities of Lyon, Saint-Etienne and Grenoble were the scene of major clashes, and many stores were looted.

Dozens of people were arrested during a night marred by urban violence in Lyon, Grenoble, Saint-Etienne and other cities, which caused major damage to shops and street furniture.

According to a still partial report at 4 a.m., 58 people were arrested in the Lyon area, where the Raid and the BRI but also the helicopter and the armored vehicles of the gendarmerie had been deployed to try to put an end to the scenes of chaos in the city center.

In Grenoble, 28 people were also arrested, the prefecture said overnight, also reporting violence in Echirolles, on the outskirts.

Until late at night, clashes opposed gangs of young people often hooded, moving around or on scooters and firing dozens of mortars towards the police who responded with tear gas canisters.

In the 4th arrondissement of Lyon, near the city center, a complaint post “was the subject of intrusion and damage”, according to the prefecture. In Vénissieux, the CRS were attacked by dozens of people, and the clashes also spread to several other localities including Villeurbanne (east) or Givors (south).

In Grenoble, the streets of the hyper-center were littered with abandoned shoe boxes, broken mannequins and broken glass after the passage of thugs and looters who ran, their arms loaded with their loot.

Yonne, Côte d’Or and Ardèche also affected

In Côte d’Or, nine people were arrested in Dijon and Beaune, and 16 cars were set on fire and a bakery was vandalized in Beaune.

Violence also occurred in Mâcon, Saint-Etienne, Sens, Auxerre, Saint-Florentin, Joigny, Migennes and Tonnerre, or in Albertville and Chambéry in Savoie.

In Yonne, “several police stations and gendarmerie brigades were targeted without significant damage being caused”. In Saint-Florentin, a DIY store was set on fire.

In Ardèche, the violence also affected several municipalities including Privas, where a truck from the social landlord Ardèche Habitat was set on fire, Annonay where 12 vehicles were burned. The police responded with LBD fire and tear gas. The public prosecutor was seized.

2023-07-01 07:34:40
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