Reinforcements were needed to restore order and allow a crew of three police officers surrounded by a hostile crowd to get out of a dangerous situation on Monday evening in Roissy-en-Brie.
It all started at 9:10 p.m. when the police, who were watching a stolen Renault Clio parked on avenue Auguste-Renoir, decided to arrest the occupants, listening to music, for concealment of theft.
A 19-year-old arrested
Immediately, about fifty people surrounded the officials to prevent them from carrying out their arrest. The most hostile set off fireworks of mortars and throws of projectiles of all kinds in the direction of the police. They still manage to arrest one of the occupants of the car, a 19-year-old man who ended up in custody at the Pontault-Combault police station. He was released on Tuesday evening. Assaulted on all sides, the police used grenades to de-encirclement and called for reinforcements.
In total, around thirty police officers took part in the intervention to disperse the hostile crowd with de-encircling grenades, extract their colleagues struggling with rioters and restore calm to the neighborhood. In the confusion, a 21-year-old young man was injured by the explosion of a firework mortar fired at the police. He was hit in the face, badly burned on one cheek, and transported by firefighters to a nearby hospital emergency room. The end of hostilities came around 9.45 p.m.
