A crew of the national police who was patrolling in a district of Rillieux-la-Pape, near Lyon, was targeted by a gang of individuals on Sunday evening, we learned on Monday from a police source.
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The facts occurred around 10:30 p.m., at Avenue d'Europe, in the center of Rillieux.
The police vehicle was heavily graveled by a group of young people dressed in black and wearing balaclavas.
“
Organized
”
individuals
who had apparently prepared their coup, as the same source explains.
No officials were injured, but the police car was heavily damaged to the body.
A side window and the windshield exploded under the jets of projectiles.
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An investigation was opened and entrusted to the Urban Security Brigade (BSU) of Rillieux.
No arrests had yet taken place at midday on Monday.
This is not an isolated event in Rillieux-la-Pape.
This is part of a context of tensions already well anchored in the Lyon metropolis, with a trivialization of urban violence as well as against the police.
Last December, the municipal police station was attacked twice in 24 hours by fifteen individuals.
"
Let's end with laxity and restore authority!"
», Had rebelled on Twitter the deputy LR of Bouches-du-Rhône Éric Ciotti.
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In May, several crews of the national and municipal police had been subjected to jets of projectiles during a patrol in a district of Rillieux.
The day before July 14, several vehicles had also been set on fire and street furniture degraded and burned.
Asked by RTL at the end of May, the mayor (LR) of Rillieux-la-Pape Alexandre Vincendet called on his citizens to take “
their responsibilities
” vis-à-vis this violence by denouncing the offenders through the reporting platform of the national police "Moncommissariat.fr".
And this even when it comes to their own children.
"
We want to say to parents: it is time to save your children
", he had hammered at the microphone of RTL.