The brawls endlessly in Essonne.
Thursday, February 25 in the afternoon, a new fight involved twenty young people in Évry, against the backdrop of rivalry between gangs,
Le Figaro
learned
from a police source.
One of the young people was seriously injured without his life threatening.
Three people were arrested.
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Also on Thursday, February 25, according to France Info, the police also intervened in Savigny-sur-Orge (Essonne) to avoid another brawl while several young people had gathered.
As a reminder, the department has already been affected by two deadly brawls this week.
Monday afternoon, a 14-year-old schoolgirl was fatally stabbed in the stomach with a knife during a brawl in Saint-Chéron between two rival gangs.
Tuesday afternoon, a teenager was killed in a brawl between rival gangs in Boussy-Saint-Antoine.
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In the process, Tuesday evening, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced the arrival of a hundred police and gendarmes in Essonne, "
about sixty in Dourdan, and about thirty in Boussy-Saint-Antoine
".
The prefects of Île-de-France were for their part to meet at the end of the week "in
order to work for an improvement
" of the situation.
Despite these announcements, the Union of Mayors of Essonne calls for "
less speeches and more acts
".
"
The number of gendarmes and police officers has been insufficient for many years, while the number of inhabitants is increasing strongly (50,000 more inhabitants in 5 years) and that the department is the one which is most rejuvenated in Île-de-France
», Write in particular the mayors.
According to an assessment of the general direction of the national police brought to the attention of
Figaro
, metropolitan France was the scene of 357 clashes between groups of rival neighborhoods in 2020. Wednesday on
France Info
, the prefect of Essonne Eric Jalon has indicated that there had been 91 brawls in 2020 in his department, against 56 in 2019. The gang phenomena were also brought to light by the violent assault on young Yuriy, in Paris, in January.
