Looting, fires, firing of fireworks… “Incidents take place everywhere in France, but the situation in Ile-de-France and Paris was extremely tense, with the police unable to control everything. – given the multiplicity of incidents, “said a high-ranking police source.
The Pablo Picasso estate in Nanterre, where Nahel was from, experienced a third night of sustained violence with burned cars, firework mortars and homemade grenades, noted an AFP journalist. A Crédit Mutuel bank branch was set on fire.
In Paris, at least two shops in the city center, including one in Les Halles, were vandalized. Fourteen people were arrested, according to the Paris police headquarters (PP), including some North stations with stolen items. Rue de Rivoli, an artery in the center of the capital, 16 people were arrested with bags, shoes and clothes stolen from a store.
In Seine-Saint-Denis, “almost all the municipalities” have been impacted, noted an annoyed police source to AFP. Many supermarkets were looted, particularly in Montreuil and Épinay-sur-Seine. In Drancy, rioters used a truck to force the entrance to a shopping center which was partly looted and burned, said a police source.
In Pantin, about twenty young people dressed in black, armed with fireworks fired in the air or in the direction of the police, noted an AFP journalist.
A fire broke out at the town hall of Clichy-sous-Bois. Thirteen buses from the RATP depot in Aubervilliers were set on fire.
In Seine-et-Marne, the Nemours social center was destroyed as well as part of a school in Moissy-Cramayel.
“The protection of public buildings has been the priority,” admitted this source.
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