Violence: man suspected of delivering Molotov cocktails arrested

A man, suspected of delivering Molotov cocktails from the cities of Gennevilliers, was placed in police custody Thursday morning, the Nanterre prosecutor's office told AFP, confirming information from the Parisian . According to the newspaper, the one who sold his clothes, should be indicted on Saturday. Already known to the authorities, he was arrested with two accomplices.

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In total, seven men, including a minor, have been arrested in the Paris suburbs since Thursday, in connection with the urban violence of recent days, we learned Friday, April 24 from judicial sources.

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A man suspected of being an "arsonist" was also placed in police custody after being arrested in a muscular manner in the Village district, in Gennevilliers. His arrest strongly reacted PCF mayor Patrice Leclerc, after the dissemination of a video on social networks in which we see a policeman punching several times in the face of the suspect while he is on the ground.

The city councilor "condemned (e) this police violence unworthy on the part of police officers of the department" and "requested the opening of an investigation and a call to the law" , indicates the city in a press release, while stressing that "the urgency is to get out of this cycle of violence" . "It will not be enough to condemn the violence, we must remove the causes . "

The night from Thursday to Friday was generally quieter than the previous ones in the Paris suburbs, but jets of projectiles or incendiary devices aimed at the police were nevertheless reported in the Hauts-de-Seine - Villeneuve-la -Garenne, Gennevilliers and Nanterre - and burnt cars in Bagneux, according to the police.