The night of New Year’s Eve was calm in the Thionville area. Curfew requires. Thursday evening, a reinforced device of police and gendarmerie controls was deployed throughout the constituency in accordance with ministerial decisions. In line of sight: compliance with confinement after 8 p.m. but also the search for addictive behavior and the prevention of urban violence.
Up to fifty gendarmes were mobilized in “dynamic patrols” on the sector from 8 pm Thursday evening to noon this Friday with a peak between 11 pm and 2 am “to avoid difficult returns and fight against risky behavior” , indicates Lieutenant-Colonel Guillaume Chanudet, head of the Thionville company. “The night was very calm,” notes the soldier again. The curfew was not expected to be so well respected. No serious traffic accident is to be deplored ”. In the police sector, same observation. “After 8 pm, people played the game, the streets were deserted. At midnight, there were some modest firecrackers, ”notes Guillaume Lacassin, deputy central commissioner of Thionville.
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Mortar jets in Yutz
However, the night was disturbed by jets of mortars in the direction of the police in Yutz, district of Terrasses-des-Provinces. About 15 individuals attacked the police officers between midnight and one in the morning. “We came together and were able to master them quickly. Several crews scoured the neighborhood to carry out control operations, ”said the police chief.
Two charred vehicles were found in the town of Yutz, rue de Lorraine in particular. Facts that should be dissociated from the events that occurred during the night at Terrasses-des-Provinces since, according to the police officer, the cars would have been set on fire in the early morning, at the stroke of 6 am.
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