Towards a lull in the Beauvais and Compiègne districts?
After the urban violence which has been repeated in the two cities since Sunday evening, police reinforcements arrived in the department on Tuesday to try to put an end to it.
Faced with these clashes, the president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand, wrote to the Minister of the Interior on Tuesday, citing a "very worrying situation".
And the boss of the region to ask for the reinforcement of "the police in all of these neighborhoods so that public order is permanently restored as quickly as possible".
Condemning this violence, the mayor (DVD) of Beauvais, Caroline Cayeux, wants to see it as a sign that "actions aimed at destroying the narcotics trafficking networks [...] hamper the traffickers and are effective".
Tuesday evening, three people were taken into police custody after the police were targeted by some firework mortar fire from the Silk Vauban side, in Beauvais.
This Wednesday, the situation seems to gradually regain its calm.
"We will keep the pressure on"
In the city prefecture, three sections of CRS, that is to say 64 officials, were deployed in the various districts.
In Compiègne, around ten staff from Lille (North) also came to help their colleagues in the field.
As for the police, if we are already seeing the effects of these reinforcements, vigilance remains in order.
"We will maintain the pressure over the next few days so that the inhabitants can regain calm and that the police are no longer targeted by the throwing of projectiles and mortar fire," explains Eric Heip, the departmental director of public security.
The CRS should therefore remain in Beauvais
at least
until the weekend.
"It might calm them down, but for how long?"
», Sabrina already wonders.
Monday evening, this resident of the Argentine district saw several vehicles set ablaze in the middle of fireworks.
A dozen iron bars and metal barriers found
"They set fire to everywhere, people were not reassured", relates the latter.
The day before, similar scenes were observed near Saint-Jean, where three police officers were slightly injured during clashes with about thirty individuals with their faces hidden.
Since then, the prefecture has issued a decree prohibiting the sale, use and transport of mortar in Beauvais.
A device already taken a few days earlier in Compiègne.
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On the ground, actions are continuing to try to prevent these nocturnal attacks upstream.
On the roof of a business in the Argentina district, the police removed on Tuesday afternoon stored street furniture that could serve as projectiles or barricades.
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"They had hidden a dozen iron bars, metal barriers, buckets ... We filled half a dumpster truck," says one on the side of the Beauvaisian municipal police.
"We thought that would serve as a lesson to them but obviously this is not the case"
Because calling out to individuals during the action remains difficult.
"With mortar fire, it's complicated because they keep us at a distance," commented a police officer.
And once the situation was under control, the perpetrators often left.
There remains the investigative work to try to find them.
"Currently DNA surveys are in progress on the mortars", indicates a officer of the police station of Compiègne.
In December, in Compiègne, a 21-year-old man was sentenced to two years in prison after his DNA was found on fireworks.
If the method can be effective, it is not necessarily dissuasive, regrets a police officer confronted with mortar fire again this Sunday evening: “We thought that this would serve as a lesson to them but obviously this is not the case.
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