Incidents broke out on Saturday evening on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris between a few hundred young people participating in an improvised party and law enforcement officials who came to interrupt the festivities, said an AFP journalist. The call for this festive gathering had been discreetly launched on social networks under the code name “Project X“, in reference to the cult American film”Project X“of 2012 on a party organized by teenagers and which skids by its magnitude.
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Tensions in progress at the Invalides during an evening “ #Project X »After a call on social networks.
Tear gas used after many projectiles. pic.twitter.com/qt46nrtbnc
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The incidents began shortly before midnight on the lawns of the Esplanade des Invalides when young people who had gathered there launched projectiles at the passage of several law enforcement vehicles arriving on the scene. The police then used tear gas to disperse the revelers.
It’s gone in a spin
According to Anaëlle, a 19-year-old Parisian, who came with two friends, “we heard about it on the networks, we were a few hundred, there was a little music, people with speakers but nothing organized“, she told AFP on the spot. Then”it’s gone in a spin, there are people who started to throw bottles at their heads, in two seconds the police arrived we were surrounded, they started shooting tear gas“, she continued.
Around 01:30, a few dozen very mobile young people were still on the esplanade, sometimes throwing bottles at each other and also at the police who, again, had to fire tear gas canisters to disperse the last recalcitrants, noted an AFP journalist. These incidents come seven days after the music festival which had given rise to controversial mass gatherings of young people, despite the still active circulation of the coronavirus.
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