Le Havre, Évreux, Bordeaux, Villiers-sur-Marne, Mantes-la-Jolie, Chanteloup-les-Vignes, Villeneuve-la-Garenne, La Courneuve, Trappes, Grigny… This is a non-exhaustive list of episodes of urban violence recorded between April 12 and 19. With the same question: how to enforce containment in areas where, in "normal" times, police and firefighters are targeted? In neighborhoods where, in the event of an arrest, the order is to intervene quickly on pain of being taken to task by the “friends” of the suspect.
Read also: Containment: the fear of a second front in the suburbs
A policeman deciphers the control by confinement time: “ We are asked to“ discern ”… and to leave the field very quickly to avoid the riot. But when there is a trash fire, the firefighters need our support… ”Faced with this problem, a controversy opposes those who denounce a“ stigmatization ”of poor neighborhoods, subjected to“ police violence ”, to those who announce "Conflagration" and vilify a mass rebellion of the inhabitants of the cities.
This article is for subscribers only. You still have 78% to discover.
Subscribe: € 1 the first month
cancellable at any time
Enter your emailAlready subscribed? Log in