They had ransacked the neighborhood for a whole weekend in full confinement, fired mortars worthy of fireworks of the great days in the nose of the police officers and the beards of dumbfounded residents, insulted the police and the firefighters. , damaged a police station vehicle, set fire to garbage cans, a mattress, moved an entire neighborhood ...
This Thursday, seven young people, all minors, placed in police custody at the 15th Wednesday police station, were to be referred to the Paris judicial court and presented to a children's judge.
It was a nice catch from the police from the 15th century police station and after a meticulous and patient investigation by the Investigation and Initiative Brigade (BEI) of the same district that allowed this outcome.
Police officers expected after an intervention
The Falguière mortar affair - "a phenomenon which is increasingly plaguing neighborhoods all over Paris", regrets a senior police official - dates back to March 27.
That weekend, bands from the 14th and 15th centuries clash against a backdrop of rivalry - "and no doubt drug trafficking" - adds a police officer, with iron bars and mortars in the Falguière district.
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In the evening, the police arrested a man who had nothing to do with these young people for a story of stabbing in a home for migrants, rue Platon (15th century).
One of the residents, who has just been beaten up, his room ransacked, is taken care of by the firefighters.
Except that when they come out, the emergency services fall into a trap.
The young people, who had spotted the police and fire engines, are waiting for them.
“And there, remembers a witness, it had been the fireworks, both literally and figuratively.
Not a small burst!
It had lasted a long time ... "
Projectiles thrown, mortar fireworks, rockets in the sky, officials cornered in too few numbers, police car degraded with kicks, broken window.
One of the kids was up on the hood and shouting
"Get out!"
Break up!
"
And
" Wallah, they're fucking ...!
"
The police had had to retreat and call for reinforcements.
The videos made it possible to identify them
Sunday evening, just to close the weekend, "the young people had put it back" - "probably the remains of the mortars from Saturday", slipped a police officer.
On Monday, five “second knives” were arrested and then released.
The police continue their investigations.
The images of the weekend can be found on social networks.
They allow investigators to identify the perpetrators, “also with images from video surveillance cameras, specifies a source close to the case, the call for witnesses launched by the EIB, the interesting testimonies that they had been able to recover.
Investigators had crisscrossed the neighborhood, scoured social networks.
"
This Wednesday, at the start of police custody, the alleged perpetrators, "all HLM bars in Falguière", mostly "known to the police for drug trafficking, burglaries, clashes between gangs, carrying prohibited weapons, violent thefts … ”, Blows a police officer, were auditioned.
“Ah!
Yes !
Falguière?
dropped one of them, although clearly identified on a photo, I vaguely heard about it!
At the end of police custody, they all confessed.
Residents hope for the eviction of families
Last week, a videoconference meeting with Philippe Goujon, the mayor (LR) of the 15th century - who had successfully asked the police prefect for reinforcements last March - was held on the subject of security, in particular in Falguière (15th century) - “a hot spot”.
"There was the police commissioner, specifies Jacques *, a resident present, the elected officials, a representative of the public prosecutor's office, the social landlord, the neighborhood councils".
Jacques who salutes the "real field work of the 15th century police station, a real presence, which also disturbs delinquents", understood half-heartedly that the police were about to get their hands on the gang ...
“Now, reframe the local resident, it remains to be seen what the penal response will be. If these minors are really tried and sentenced, we will have won so that the social landlord can launch a procedure for the expulsion of the families of the offenders. These gangs deal in the open, fight with baseball bats, sow terror, make us have a hell of a life! "
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