To stem a “generalization” of urban violence, the authorities have mobilized 40,000 police and gendarmes, as well as elite intervention units such as the Raid (police) and its black armored vehicles or the Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN), deployed in several cities.
Night curfews have been decreed in Clamart and Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), Neuilly-sur-Marne (Seine-Saint-Denis) and Compiègne (Oise). And in the North, the prefecture has banned any gathering in places and mobilized a helicopter and drones.
Despite this massive deployment, violence and damage were reported Thursday evening in multiple cities.
“There is no very violent confrontation in direct contact with the police, but there are a number of vandalized stores, looted or even burned businesses”, detailed a senior police officer. national.
This was the case in the heart of Paris, at Les Halles and in the rue de Rivoli which leads to the Louvre, but also in the Parisian suburbs, in the urban area of Rouen, in Nantes and in Brest, where the sub-prefect Jean- Philippe Setbon described to AFP “a lot of clashes between police and small very mobile groups”.
Like the day before, the police were also targeted, trash cans, cars and buses burned, in particular in Villeurbanne (Rhône), noted AFP journalists, or in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis ).
In Nanterre, the Hauts-de-Seine prefecture which has become the epicenter of the violence, fireworks and grenades exploded in the popular district of Pablo Picasso where the killed teenager lived.
Again, public buildings were also targeted by groups often hooded or hidden under hoods, such as the town hall of the priority district of Argon in Orléans. “The police office located at the Laherrère pole in Pau” was for example targeted by a molotov cocktail, according to the prefecture of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
In the city center of Marseille, it is the storefront of the municipal library of the Alcazar which was damaged, according to the town hall. A short distance away, on the Old Port, scuffles pitted the police against a group of 100 to 150 people who allegedly tried to set up barricades.
In Seine-Saint-Denis, “almost all the municipalities” were affected, often lightning actions, many public buildings targeted such as the town hall of Clichy-sous-Bois and shops looted, according to a police source.
In Lille (north), the town hall of a working-class district in the south was set on fire and another, in the east of the city, was stoned, according to the Town Hall.
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