Trappes police station attacked: "Young people must respect the police"

Almost no trace of the night's raging remains on the facade of the building.

The Trappes police station was attacked during the night from Thursday to Friday by a group of young people.

According to the police, about forty individuals fired fireworks mortar rockets at the police.

A little before 11 p.m., at Square Léo-Lagrange, a patrol car was attacked by individuals who threw cobblestones in its direction.

The stones hit the vehicle twice.

The officials get out of their cars and fight back.

The attackers regroup and then converge towards the police station and advance towards the police, firing about fifty fireworks mortars.

The police responded by throwing around fifty tear gas canisters and firing thirteen shots from defense bullet launchers.

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In total, seven containers were destroyed during this evening of violence, no arrest could be made and, despite the many projectiles exchanged, no injuries were to be deplored.

The inhabitants of the district were in any case embarrassed.

Like Sonia, a young mother who has just moved in next to the police station.

“It woke up my two children, the young people were making quite a noise but I was too far away to see anything.

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“I also have a teenager at home and he doesn't hang around!

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Myriam and Safia (the first names have been changed) saw nothing either but "heard everything".

The two fifties, who live a little further away, had already viewed this Friday morning the video of the attack on the police station.

"What we do with these young people is really not right, why are the parents not watching them?

For them, they have nothing to do in the street at this hour, even more during curfew.

Above all, there is no excuse for the health crisis that holds.

“Even if they are bored because of the confinement, they must respect the police, it's a question of education, period.

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An opinion shared by Alia, a mother who lives next door.

"It's up to parents to tighten the screw and prevent them from going out, I also have a teenager at home and he doesn't hang around!"

"She still wishes to clarify that" it had been a long time since there had been violence like that in the neighborhood.

Questioned, another inhabitant of the district prefers to remain silent, for "fear of reprisals": "I work and when I return home, I watch TV and I do not take care of what is happening outside with the young people. .

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"They had already all carapaté"

Contacted, the mayor (Generation. S) of Trappes, Ali Rabeh, condemns these clashes.

“For the residents, it's unbearable, these young people have nothing to do in the street at this hour.

"The chosen one wishes however to qualify:" We are not on a nightmarish night either, everything happened in twenty minutes maximum.

A police source evoked, for his part, a duration of two hours.

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Alerted by the police station, “when I arrived on site at 11:15 pm, everything was already over, there were only trash fires left in the Léo-Lagrange district.

"Stayed on the scene until 1 am, Ali Rabeh did not meet any young people:" They had already all beaten up.

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Despite the increase in the number of urban violence in the Yvelines, for him, "it had been a long time since we had experienced this in Trappes". To remedy this situation, he plans to go “even more into the field” with his teams to “get in touch with the inhabitants”.