Cars were set on fire on Thursday evening December 31 in Strasbourg during New Year's Eve, despite the curfew, but in fewer numbers than last year, we learned from concordant sources.
"We are already at a number of burnt vehicles"
and several people were arrested, lamented the prefecture of Bas-Rhin, without providing figures.
But
"the situation is less tense than last year for the moment"
, added the same source.
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According to a police union source, around thirty cars were burned in different districts of the Alsatian capital marked in previous years by significant urban violence, on New Year's Eve.
Despite the ban on sale and purchase decreed by the prefecture for the entire month of December, firecrackers and mortar fire were regularly heard since the beginning of the evening.
But the quays of the Ill, the river that borders the historic center of the city, were deserted when they are usually very busy on New Year's Eve.
That of last year had been marked all night in Strasbourg by violence on the police and firefighters, and many cars burned.
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To prevent car fires, the police system has been reinforced and parking prohibited in several streets and residential areas.
Several free and supervised parking lots were made available to residents until January 2 and the sale of fuel at the retail level was banned.
“We cannot afford to have the same record as last year.
We did our best to make this night go better, ”
said the prefect of Bas-Rhin Josiane Chevalier, after a visit to the emergency room at Hautepierre hospital, to the police and to the fire brigade, late Thursday. 'afternoon.
The "evening will be without concession," she warned.
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