Five people involved in the scuffles in Argenteuil were tried this Wednesday in immediate appearance in Pontoise (Val-d'Oise). Among them, two young people of 20, suspected of having been part of a group of about fifteen people who multiplied the mortar or projectile fire on the anti-crime brigade (Bac).
Claiming to have been there by chance, they were both sentenced to six months in prison by the criminal court, which however did not issue a warrant against them. "Next time, it will not be," warned the president. The court has no doubt about your presence on the scene. Which is serious. "
Monday evening, while incidents have been increasing for three hours already in the Dalle sector, since the Sunday morning death of the young Sabri on a motorcycle, the Bac is taken to task in the rue Guy-Moquet, in the industrial zone located at side of Val-Nord. It is then 1:30 am.
"I was there in the wrong place at the wrong time"
Targeted, the police then see the young people flee and disperse but manage to catch two, one of them having been spotted getting rid of his gloves and hat. Both were placed in police custody and brought before an immediate court for "participation in a group in preparation for violence or destruction".
Both denied involvement at the hearing. "I was coming back from my car, which is broken down, where I spent the evening," explains one of them, after having indicated that he also met his cousin who did not confirm. The second explains that he wanted to join a friend, finding himself in the group by chance. "I was there in the wrong place at the wrong time," he says. The CRS ran towards me, I had to run! "
Several dozen people involved, according to the prosecutor
The president had previously set out all the events of the evening, since 22:23, place de la Commune-de-Paris, in the heart of the Dalle, through the wound in the thigh of a police officer, the attempted fire from the police station with pallets, until 3 am and the end of hostilities.
Incidents that one of the young people tried said he had not noticed for two days, just as he did not know the death of Sabri. What his co-colleague did not support.
The prosecutor spoke of residents of Argenteuil "taken hostage by a few dozen people who put them in danger", describing the scene in the rue Guy-Moquet filmed with sound by video surveillance, and where the mortars fired on the police.
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