We hurried Monday evening at the city stadium in the city of 3,000 in Aulnay. The field was struggling to contain the hundreds of young people who were to attend an improvised match between the 3,000 and the Mille Mille neighborhood. Spectators were perched on the gates, a halo of smoke diffused by smoke bombs hovered on the ground. And hung on the city stadium fences, banners hostile to the police or in favor of Adama Traore, Theo or were adorned with flags. Around 9 p.m., the tension went up a notch.
Police "Ordered Not To Intervene"
Containers were pushed into the middle of the street and burned. Two vehicles also caught fire. When the first local police vehicles approached the scene, mortar fire was heard. They turned back. A police officer confides: "The troops were ordered not to intervene. So we had to let the cars burn. As soon as we approached we were targeted with mortar fire. It was completely prepared ”.
No one was injured or arrested. Around 11 p.m., calm returned to the city. "We are in the logical continuation of what is happening at the national and international level", notes this police official alluding to the campaigns against police violence and to the climate of global distrust against the police.
Contacted, Bruno Beschizza, mayor LR d'Aulnay, has not yet reacted.
