Fires in garbage cans and cars, fireworks from mortars, vandalized businesses: violence was committed during the night from Saturday to Sunday in a district of Sens, according to the town hall and the prefecture of Yonne.
Around midnight, around 30 people blocked the streets and set fire to garbage cans and cars, reported the regional daily
L'Yonne Républicaine
.
The firefighters had to intervene, supervised by the police.
"
There was no question of endangering them because we know very well that they are ambushes,
" Deputy Prefect Rachid Kaci told AFP.
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Units from Sens, Auxerre and Seine-et-Marne were mobilized.
On their arrival on the spot, help and police came under mortar fire before managing to disperse the rioters around 3:00 am.
Burgled and ransacked businesses
No one was injured and no arrests took place, but an investigation is underway to identify the perpetrators.
A CCTV mast was sawn off and its cameras damaged.
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A gas station, a hairdressing salon and the premises of a company were also broken into and ransacked in this district, which had already experienced violence in March and is regularly the subject of interventions against drug trafficking.
In a press release, the mayor of Sens, Marie-Louise Fort (LR), condemned these acts "
the brutality of which has gone up a notch
".
