The police used tear gas on Thursday evening against a "big sixty" members of the Turkish community demonstrating in Dijon, said the prefecture, the day after a similar show of force near Lyon.
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"It is a demonstration, nothing more", specified the prefecture, after the diffusion of videos on Twitter showing dozens of demonstrators waving Turkish flags and shouting "Allah Akbar" ("God is the greatest" , in Arabic) in the center of Dijon.
The demonstrators were filmed brandishing their fists as they marched before being repelled by tear gas fire towards the station.
Community tensions
On Wednesday evening, the police had already intervened to prevent "several dozen" members of the Turkish community "to do battle" with Armenians in Décines-Charpieu, a city in the suburbs of Lyon which houses the memorial of the Armenian genocide , had indicated the prefecture of the Rhône.
This demonstration took place after an attempt to block, Wednesday morning, the toll in Vienne (Isère), south of Lyon, by pro-Armenia activists who had degenerated, leaving four wounded, one of whom was hit with a hammer.
If the prefecture of Isère had simply mentioned "clashes" with motorists, the local press questioned the Turkish community in these clashes.
Dijon had been shaken in mid-June by a show of force by hundreds of members of the Chechen community who had marched through the city for several nights in revenge for the attack on one of theirs, which they said was the act of members. of the Maghreb community.
Images of people brandishing weapons, fake or not, and urban violence had been widely disseminated, in France and abroad.