“We are going to burn you!
“, “Take out the cocktails!
», « Long live the year 2016 ».
Here, according to the elements that we were able to collect, the cries heard by police officers in intervention in the district of Grande Borne, in Grigny (Essonne), Monday evening.
A reference to the attack on police officers burned in Viry-Chatillon, where officials were attacked with stones and molotov cocktails by sixteen masked young people in October 2016 in the same neighborhood.
Two police officers had been seriously burned.
For these facts, five minors were convicted out of the thirteen returned to the assizes for attempted murder.
Monday in Grigny, around 11 p.m., two police crews along the way of the Plain when the facts occur.
According to a police source, the officials had just gone to a family, unreachable by phone, to inform them of the custody of a 17-year-old minor for concealment of theft and possession of narcotics.
A “bicycle scout” arrested
They are then taken to task by a dozen young people aged around fifteen who fire a dozen firework mortars in their direction.
The agents take cover, then retaliate with a defensive ball launcher and tear gas to keep them at bay.
Reinforcements are called, and the group disperses an hour later.
According to a police source, confirming information from the Actu17 site, an arrest took place.
He is a scout on a bicycle, responsible for guiding the group during the attack and warning his friends by shouting.
He was arrested by police on mountain bikes.
No injuries and no damage are to be deplored.
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If stones and ambushes remain frequent at the Grande Borne, clear references to the 2016 attack are less so since the trial of the attackers.
Now adults, some of them are in detention or have left the area.
But others, younger, take over.
“It's a neighborhood where we don't intervene just anyhow, notes a representative of the Alliance 91 union. In 2016, the authorities had put the package for a year.
The traffickers had been forced to change their deal point!
But since then, nothing has changed, there is always a notion of permanent ambush for the police.