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Val-de-Reuil: how a Norman town found itself at the heart of a communal clash

2021-09-18T04:16:16.702Z


REPORT - With millions of euros in public investment, the town manages to maintain relative calm between immigrant communities. The recent incidents between Kurds and African families nevertheless undermine the edifice.


The TER “

Nomad

”, known as the “Impressionism train”, runs along pastures and country houses. A golf course on the edge of the Eure, then the station of Val-de-Reuil, recent, clean, without soul. Strange city, whose heart is difficult to find. We pass a few housing estates to arrive in front of a town hall which itself seems to be on the outskirts. Few municipal employees are busy. Are we in the center? Yes, there you are, it's all these avenues. They intersect perpendicularly as in New York, but with the rural placidity of Normandy.

Is it really here that a week ago, a banal children's quarrel degenerated into a communal fist fight?

A pair of slaps between two ten-year-old children followed a fight between the mothers, then the fathers, which sent one of them into a coma.

After violence involving several hundred people, the case culminated in two stages: first a pro-Kurdish demonstration which, according to some, involved the PKK, then an invasion.

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Source: lefigaro

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