The Interior Ministry promised on Monday the utmost firmness and announced the dispatch of new reinforcements in response to incidents in recent days in a district of Dijon plagued by settling scores between rival bands.
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" The violent disturbances to public order and the acts of intimidation which have occurred in the Dijon agglomeration are unacceptable and call for a firm response ," the ministry said in a statement. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner met Monday morning with the mayor of Dijon (François Rebsamen) " to confirm the availability of new reinforcements after those deployed over the weekend, with a unit and a half mobile forces, to restore calm and restore order ”, adds the text.
The incidents in the Grésilles district in Dijon oppose neighborhood residents to people of Chechen origin, reports France 3, according to whom representatives of this community said they wanted to settle a conflict with " dealers " who allegedly beat up a young man. Chechen a few days ago.
" A judicial investigation has been opened to determine the circumstances in which this violence broke out, to clarify the facts, to identify all those implicated in these unacceptable acts and to bring them to justice as soon as possible, " the ministry said in its statement, adding that that Secretary of State Laurent Nunez would be on site Tuesday.
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