The weekend was hot in Falguière (15th) and rather spectacular… Wild fireworks in the middle of the street despite the confinement, mortar fire targeting the police and on two occasions, clashes with the police, degradation of 'a police rescue vehicle, fire in garbage cans and brawls between gangs with iron bars ...
This Monday, five young people from the neighborhood, all minors and known to the police, were in custody at the 15th district police station.
In the early evening, they were released.
The investigation is continuing.
Confrontation with iron bars in the Dalpayrat garden
The facts unfold in four episodes, with the same core of protagonists.
Saturday afternoon, rival bands clash with iron bars in the Dalpayrat garden, a park bordering a group of social housing, between rue Falguière and the Montparnasse railway tracks, "in the midst of playing children" , annoys a policeman.
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A little later, at 8:20 p.m., a few hundred meters away, the police were called in for a story of stabbing at the Platon foyer, rue Platon, a place for migrants.
One of the residents was injured in the hand.
While the emergency services are trying to provide assistance to the injured, the residents witness, behind their windows, a fireworks display.
“It wasn't a small burst!
commented a dismayed inhabitant, it lasted a long time.
The firefighters and police then arrive on site.
"There, deciphers another witness, about thirty young people, the same, said to themselves:
Here we are going to welcome the police!"
"
The police must go and seek reinforcements
“The rockets fell on them but also on the firefighters, taken to task.
The police were insulted.
They had to back down.
Then we saw a small group of young people scatter.
A mattress is set on fire on the road.
The patrols turned back and went to look for reinforcements.
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Sunday, at 6 pm, a fight breaks out in the same place between these "kids of the neighborhood and a father who got confused with them and went to get a knife at his place", continues this witness.
The local resident was beaten up.
The police succeeded in identifying and arresting five of the attackers, in particular with the images of the video surveillance.
"The father could also be arrested and prosecuted", indicates a source close to the investigation.
Last salvos Sunday evening
Two hours later, around 9:30 p.m., the young people of Falguière "took out their last mortars for a final round" in the sky of Falguière, "perhaps those they had not had time to shoot the day before", suppose a policeman.
This Monday evening, Philippe Goujon, the mayor (LR) of the 15th district, asked the police prefect for reinforcements "which he agreed to send to me".
Patrols should be on site for several days.
“Falguière has been a hot spot for several years,” regrets the elected official.
"A n open-air drug trafficking," slips a source close to the case.
On July 14, the neighborhood had already suffered from mortars and fireworks targeting the police.
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