"Light them up guys, light them up!"
The scene takes place this Sunday afternoon, around 5 pm, near the stadium in the Guinette district, in Etampes (Essonne).
A young man films the gravel of a police car, forced to retreat quickly under the projectiles.
Minutes earlier, two patrols were called in for a motocross theft.
"An appointment had been given for the sale, but it did not go as planned," says a source familiar with the matter.
The police chase the suspected thief.
On another video we got, we see a young man without a helmet abandon the machine and run away.
But the intervention takes place near the Etampes stadium, where the match of a locally organized football tournament is played.
Nearly 200 people attended the meeting.
Etampes, this Sunday.
The police were looking for the driver of a suspected stolen motocross bike.
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About 50 young people from the public joined in the intervention and took part in the two patrols.
"It was when they started to want to recover the bike that it went live", confides a witness.
A policeman is injured in the head by a stone, while the two screen-printed cars are damaged.
"The motorcycle was recovered by the delinquents," blows a police source.
Reinforcements are expected to manage possible overflows in Etampes this Sunday evening.
"We salute the commitment of the police, who work in increasingly difficult conditions," comments Claude Carillo, of the Alliance 91 police union. When will the reinforcements of 200 personnel arrive?
It is still a tense weekend in Essonne ... "
Because in the night from Saturday to Sunday, the police were also attacked in Grigny.
The clashes occurred three times during the evening in the district of Grigny 2.
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But it was at La Grande Borne, around 9 p.m., that the first incident occurred.
Following a car accident on rue de la Serpente, around forty people gathered around the driver and became more and more vehement.
When they arrived there, the police tried to take him to safety, but they were graveled.
They must use tear gas canisters to free themselves.
It gets complicated in #Grigny!
The Mayor must react to our proposal for an exceptional municipal council on the situation.
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Two hours later, around 10:30 p.m., in Grigny 2, rebelote.
According to a police source, a woman tries to come and collect things from her ex-companion in the neighborhood, protected by the police.
Their arrival sparked new riots.
A group of about twenty people is dispersed by tear gas.
Finally, at half past midnight, Corbeil road, in the same sector, a car is set on fire in the parking lot.
Fireworks mortars are launched profusely on the officials during the intervention of the firefighters.
These three episodes of violence will not hurt anyone.
"We congratulate the colleagues for their great professionalism, and warn of the urgent need for staff to respond to this worrying rise in violence", comments Guillaume Roux, from the Unity-SGP 91 union.