A police officer was injured and a young man was arrested during a skirmish on Thursday in a popular district of Mulhouse, after an accident the day before involving a minor on a two-wheeler, AFP learned from a source close to the investigation .
At the end of the afternoon, firefighters and police, who intervened in the fire of a car in the Coteaux district, were the target of stone throwing by twenty young people. A police officer was injured in the head. The police officials had to retaliate in particular with the firing of defense ball throwers.
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A young adult, suspected of being the author of a projectile, was arrested and taken to the city police station. A squadron of mobile gendarmes was dispatched to reinforce and the situation calmed down in the neighborhood.
The police make the link between this urban violence and the accident Wednesday around 7:30 p.m. of a 17-year-old teenager, who hit a car while he was having fun, without a helmet, rodeo with his motocross.
Severely injured, he was evacuated to the hospital by firefighters, escorted by police. During the night of Wednesday to Thursday, several surveillance cameras in the neighborhood were set on fire.