Le Figaro Nice
The Maralpine authorities have apparently learned the lessons of the excesses in Nice on the sidelines of the semi-final and the final of the football World Cup at the end of December.
In fact, the night of New Year's Eve went well overall throughout the department, thanks to a consequent mobilization of the police, with 700 police officers and gendarmes deployed and almost as many firefighters.
On Saturday evening, the mayor of Nice and his first Deputy Delegate for Security, Anthony Borré, paid their traditional visit to municipal police (70 officers on the ground on the night of December 31) and national police, to soldiers from the Sentinel Force, to gendarmes and firefighters, with a single watchword:
"that everyone can celebrate the end of the year in complete safety".
Mission successful according to the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes, Bernard Gonzalès, who welcomed Sunday by means of a press release the
“clear reduction”
in the level of urban violence
“compared to the previous year”.
The latter identified 14 burned vehicles
"against 33 last year"
.
On Twitter, Anthony Borré evokes, for his part, 16 cars burned during the night.
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However, the decree prohibiting the sale, possession and use of pyrotechnic devices on the public highway is far from being respected.
While most of the wild fireworks were fired into the sky for celebratory purposes, law enforcement also came under heavy mortar fire from young offenders.
Three police officers were "
slightly injured in Nice in the exercise of their function
", detailed the prefect Gonzalès.
Rue Trachel and Maurice-Maccario, in Nice, municipal police officers also had to use their LBD.
Still according to the prefect, the police and gendarmes arrested 6 individuals throughout the department.
The municipal police of Nice arrested 5 people, 3 for damage by fire, one for damage and the last for theft with violence.
