Detonations, a series of flashes, children's cries, a stampede.
The video shot on Friday at the end of the day by residents of rue Rébeval (19th), and posted on social networks, quickly went viral, sparking outrage.
In these images, we see a group of young people, running into the small square located at the foot of the buildings of the vast Rébeval city, in the middle of children and parents.
It is around 7 p.m., when several shots, mortar according to some witnesses, or fireworks guns, sound, causing a movement of panic in the paths of the garden.
"The children were very afraid"
Scandalized, residents of a building overlooking the square begin to film the scene, and exclaim, stunned: "In a park, now, with children!"
“It took me a while to realize what was happening,” says a young mother.
At first I believed in firecrackers, before realizing that they were shots in the middle of groups of kids.
The children were very scared, like the adults, for that matter.
Even old people who were sitting on the benches started to run in all directions. "
“No one was injured, but it is insane, such an unconsciousness, strangles a young father, bordering the rue Rébeval.
There were a dozen teenagers, between 15 and 18, chasing each other in the streets with their pistols, then they finished in the square, without thinking for a single minute of the little ones who were there.
We no longer have a life in the neighborhood, with them ... "
And passers-by unrolled the long list of their recriminations: nocturnal noise, incessant trafficking of cannabis in the cellars, insults uttered towards all those who dare to complain.
“Not to mention all these teenagers, barely 15 years old, who walk among the children with hounds.
Dogs that they excite with the consequences that we imagine, details a local resident.
And now fireworks ... "
A "case" of which there is no trace
Without denying the problems inherent in the district, in particular the traffic of cannabis, François Dagnaud, the mayor (PS) of the 19th, refuses to comment further on "a case of which there is no trace".
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"I made inquiries, in particular at the police station, and no one was made aware of the events which were filmed in the square," he swears.
I understand that people are extremely shocked, he adds, but when we witness facts of such gravity, a scene of violence, when there is danger, the first gesture must be 'to call the police !
Perhaps these young people could have been arrested and this would have made it possible to know what type of device was used, where they got them .... Not having the reflex to dial 17 is unfortunately symptomatic of a loss of confidence of the inhabitants.
Of their resignation. "
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A resident of the square, she says "no longer count the times" when she called the police.
“I even managed to remove a bench where young people gathered every evening to traffic, with the music blaring.
But unfortunately we have the impression that the problem is endless. "
