0h56: Clashes and scenes of looting in Lyon, Grenoble and Saint-Etienne
In Lyon, groups of young people, some wearing hoods, some armed with fireworks or iron bars, looted several shops in the pedestrian streets of the city center and lit trash fires, quickly dispersing in the streets in case of announcement of approach by the police Several dozen boarded video games, bottles, underwear, shoes after breaking windows.
In the 4th arrondissement, near the city center, a complaint post “was the subject of intrusion and damage”, according to the prefecture. Firing of fireworks punctually illuminated the city for several hours, sometimes in smoke of tear gas.
In Vénissieux, south of Lyon, the CRS were attacked by dozens of people, and the clashes also won Villeurbanne at the gates of Lyon, according to the prefecture, which reported 31 arrests in the middle of the evening in the agglomeration.
At the same time in Grenoble, hundreds of hooded young people were able to rob many stores in the city center, in particular clothing and telephone stores, before a late intervention by the police, noted an AFP journalist. A little earlier, cars had been set on fire in the near suburb of Echirolles, where the clashes were sometimes violent, according to images from the regional daily The Dauphine.
In the center of St-Etienne, several hundred young people, many wearing surgical masks, smashed shop windows with rocks or metal objects, and entered several clothing, optical and jewelry to loot them, noted an AFP correspondent.
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