In the evening of this Thursday to this Friday, the Tarterêts flared up.
In this district of Corbeil-Essonnes, about twenty masked assailants started by setting fire to garbage cans, around 11:20 pm, in several places of the city.
They then equipped themselves with molotov cocktails and fireworks mortars while awaiting the arrival of the police, indicates a police source.
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Their vehicles were grazed by pétanque balls, mortar fire and numerous projectiles.
The agents managed to escape the ambush using their de-encirclement grenades and defense bullet launchers (LBDs).
None of them were injured.
One of the pétanque balls thrown at the police.
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On several videos posted on social networks, we can hear the attackers shouting "
Kill them!"
"And" Take petanque balls!
".
The scene was relatively short, as calm returned around 12:10 a.m.
Firefighters were able to extinguish all six fires.
No arrest took place in the evening.
Two brothers arrested earlier in the day
These incidents could be the reprisals of an arrest of two brothers known to the police, earlier in the day in Tarterêts.
One of them was first arrested for an urban rodeo on a blue motocross in the neighborhood.
During the intervention, the officers were quickly surrounded by other young people from the neighborhood who stoned them.
Then "one of the brothers tried to strangle an agent", indicates a police source.
The motocross seized for an urban rodeo in the afternoon.
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The two men were taken into custody and the motorcycle confiscated.
"Nothing to do with a gassed mother," said the same source, in reference to a rumor circulating on social networks.