Urban violence broke out on the night of Monday 17 to Tuesday 18 May in a city in Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise), where cars were set on fire and fireworks were fired at the police. .
Videos posted on social media show vehicles engulfed in flames, some of them overturned on the roof.
Firefighters intervened to extinguish these fires.
Many fireworks mortar fire targeted the security forces deployed on the spot, without injuring, said a police source.
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This episode of tension takes place in the Val d'Argent, a vast working-class district regularly the scene of urban violence, in this city located north-west of Paris.
It is in this city that resided Sabri, who died a year ago to the day on May 17, 2020, without any link being established at this stage between this tragedy and the violence.
The 18-year-old died in a motorcycle accident near a police car in a nearby neighborhood.
The investigation was closed, the investigations confirming
"the absence of intervention by a third party in the accident"
, according to the Pontoise prosecutor's office. His relatives remain convinced that the BAC (anti-crime brigade) bears responsibility for the accident and have requested the opening of a judicial investigation. A white march in his memory is also scheduled for Saturday.