The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, will receive this Monday from police unions heated to white and who no longer intend to be rocked by nice promises without a future.
Touched to the heart by the terrorist attack on the Rambouillet police station on April 23, then by the murder in the middle of the street of Brigadier Eric Masson, whose memory they celebrated this Sunday in Avignon, they risk having more and more difficult to hold their troops as the ground is mined on all sides.
Because, in addition to terrorism that strikes without warning and drugs that sow death, the front of urban violence is igniting again.
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In Fréjus (Var), the uniformed workforce experienced a night of chaos after being called Sunday at 12:30 am by residents of the Gabelle district, stunned to see a band of 50 thugs breaking the windows of fifteen shops.
The police officers who came as reinforcements from Toulon, Draguignan and Marseille fought until 4 a.m., using tear gas and their bullet launchers to restore calm, at the cost of three wounded in their ranks.
In addition to the damaged stores, two businesses were set on fire as well as three cars, including one from the municipal police.
In the suburbs of Lyon, the whiff of violence was general on Saturday evening.
In Villefranche, 70 thugs surrounded firefighters who came to extinguish a rubbish fire in an underground car park.
While driving his car, a motorist even tried to run over one of the firefighters, who miraculously avoided the shock.
The driver was arrested.
Fireworks mortars
In Rillieux-la-Pape, it is a municipal police officer who was injured after receiving a rain of projectiles while intervening around 6.30 p.m. with his colleagues on a dozen thugs destroying a car with an iron bar.
At the same time, in Vaulx-en-Velin, CRS were stoned after being called to put an end to a wild rodeo of around thirty motorcycles.
The Lyon streak was weighed down by a giant brawl between 80 people in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon, where a 17-year-old teenager was found injured on the battlefield.
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Finally, the police were attacked by 40 assailants in Bron and Décines-Charpieu, a football match involving 100 people resulted in the partial destruction of a bus and the firefighters attack. In the Monnaie district in Romans-sur-Isère, still on Saturday evening, a dozen very young teenagers once again attacked the police. After setting fire to garbage cans, they fired fireworks mortars at police and firefighters fighting the flames. The youngest "rioters" were hardly more than 10 years old.