As every year, the drafting of jeanmarcmorandini.com toured the local media, that is to say the dailies, France Bleu stations, to try to take stock of the night. And one thing is clear: this night there was violence in several cities in France and hundreds of burnt cars.
Here is this non-exhaustive tour of France.
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The night of New Year’s Eve was agitated for the police in Strasbourg, where nearly 220 vehicles were burned according to Alsace and injured officials. France inter mentions about twenty people injured in Strasbourg, but also Colmar. “The night was very busy”, summarized this source, noting “several officials injured” while stressing that these injuries were not serious.
Urban violence had already occurred in several districts of Strasbourg last weekend and then in the night from Monday to Tuesday. Cars and garbage cans had been set on fire. Firefighters and police had been targeted by fireworks. “We have seen a rise in vehicle fires since Halloween and for two weekends the phenomenon has accelerated, also with the use of mortars, devices that can seriously injure police officers or firefighters”, underlined Tuesday evening the departmental director of public security of Bas-Rhin, Annie Brégal, reporting “small groups of individuals often hooded”, composed of minors or young adults
A first official assessment for the Haut-Rhin, this time, according to Alsace: The assessment at the end of the morning would amount to nearly 70 vehicles burned down in the Haut-Rhin. Department: 17 vehicles set on fire plus 3/4 of cars affected by propagation (police sectors of Colmar, Wittenheim and Mulhouse). Mulhouse: at 3 am, the results were 14 vehicles destroyed.
New Year’s Eve was also agitated in the Bordeaux agglomeration. Ten vehicles were set on fire last night in the center of Bordeaux, rue Drouyn according to Bordeaux Actu. The firefighters intervened from 3:30 am to extinguish the flames, deploying two nozzles. In total, eight cars and two vans were badly damaged by this fire, which seems voluntary. Firefighters and police officers had to intervene on several fires on the public highway, in particular in the Aubiers district, in Bordeaux according to South West. Fires were lit on the public highway and police were attacked and received projectile throws on their arrival on the scene. An officer was injured.
In Marseille, trash fires were lit last night in the city of Rosiers, chemin de Sainte-Marthe (14th). Police and firefighters, however, quickly intervened.
In Châlons-en-Champagne, six cars were completely destroyed by fire and at least three others partially damaged according to the Union
In Vénissieux, the fires had started the day before, with a dozen cars burned by December 30. The vehicles continued to blaze on New Year’s Eve. In Villeurbanne, in the Tonkin district, at least three cars were burnt on avenue Allende. “A little before midnight, I heard a detonation and I went down to the parking lot of the residence. Of the three cars burned, a recent Audi, and two were totally charred. “Tells a resident of France Bleu
A Soyaux that several urban violence erupted until the middle of the night, reports the Charente Libre: several dumpsters and then cars were set on fire in this town on the eastern suburbs of Angoulême.
In Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, a dozen cars were set on fire and police officers were graveled on their arrival in the Kellermann district, according to Vosges Matin.
In the Drôme, in Montélimar, two cars were set on fire. The fire spread to two gas cabinets located on the public highway. About ten people had to be evacuated overnight by the firefighters and several homes in the area were deprived of electricity and / or gas, says Le Dauphiné Libéré.
In Limoges, according to France Bleu, in the early morning, the departmental fire and rescue service of Haute-Vienne counted “at least 36 cars burned in Limoges”. The firefighters’ interventions had to be secured by the police because they came under projectile fire on their arrival at La Bastide and the ZUP de l’Aurence. The prefecture strongly condemns these acts and indicates that everything is being done to find these bands of individuals.
Twenty-seven cars were set on fire and four others caught fire by spreading in the Yvelines. Mantes-la-Jolie and Mantes-la-Ville were the most affected with eight and four vehicles burned respectively. There are three others in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, four in Trappes, two in Chanteloup-les-Vignes, two in Limay and finally a car in Carrières-sous-Poissy, Guyancourt, Mureaux and Vernouillet.
The night was also agitated in Toulouse. According to La Dépêche du Midi, 28 fires were identified, of which 18 involved vehicles and 10 bins.
“Around midnight at Mirail, jets of projectiles were thrown against the firefighters and the police who intervened to extinguish fires of garbage cans in the same traffic lanes and burned cars. Here too, tear gas was used,” specify our colleagues who recall that last year, 50 cars were burned in Haute-Garonne during New Year’s Eve.
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Images of riot in Strasbourg on this night of #New Year pic.twitter.com/6XUjeWgjyt
– In Cause (@EnCausee) January 1, 2020
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