A bus and cars were set on fire on Saturday evening during a new episode of urban violence denounced by the mayor of Rillieux-la-Pape, in the Lyon suburbs.
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According to a spokesperson for public transport in the agglomeration, the bus was parked around 8:30 p.m. at the terminus of a line when its driver saw around twenty hooded people carrying cans.
He wanted to leave the stop but people got in front of the bus, while others ordered him to get out, before setting the vehicle on fire.
The driver was not physically assaulted, according to the spokesperson.
It was the driver of another line passing through the neighborhood who sounded the alert and brought back his colleague.
The area will not be served this Sunday.
"
It was already complicated for some time, with stones, attacks,
" said the spokesperson.
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Elsewhere in Rillieux-la-Pape, seven cars were set on fire, according to the town hall, and the emergency services “
again and again
” came under mortar fire during their intervention, for its part denounced the South union.
The mast of a CCTV camera was also damaged by an attempt to saw it with a grinder, according to the LR mayor of the city Alexandre Vincendet.
"
A commando of specialists in urban violence has once again decided to give the Rilliards 30 minutes of an infamous outburst of violence
", denounced the elected official in a
press
release.
"
These unjustifiable acts are the work of a mafia gang which sees its ground receding every day
".
Rillieux-la-Pape, a “republican reconquest district” since January, has experienced several episodes of urban violence in recent months and its mayor has been the subject of threats, like that of the neighboring town of Bron, on fund for the reinforced fight against drug trafficking, bringing together national and municipal police forces.
