The third half was hectic.
According to official documents that
Le Figaro
was able to consult, urban violence erupted throughout the territory after the semi-final of the World Cup won by France against Morocco.
For this event, 10,000 police and gendarmes were mobilized throughout France.
More than 6,000 police officers were notably deployed in 218 cities.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, 266 arrests, including 167 in the Paris area, took place after the match.
About forty police officers were injured, a police source tells us.
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During the evening, the field agents had to make use of collective means of defense - in particular shots from LBD (defense bullet launcher, editor's note), Cougar (a grenade launcher for maintaining order , Editor's note) or throwing tear gas canisters -, nearly 450 times.
Here is the non-exhaustive list of cities where violence took place.
In the north
In Amiens, in the…
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