An “
unacceptable attack
”: the mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet strongly condemned, this Saturday morning on RMC, the ransacking of the town hall of the 4th arrondissement of Lyon on the heights of the Croix Rousse.
“
The attack that took place on the town hall of the 4th is intolerable.
A district town hall is a place of daily public service
,” he said, adding that he was “
particularly angry
.”
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“
Justice must do its job, as with all acts of vandalism,
” he continued.
“
Violence has no place in the expression of discontent.
We have the right to demonstrate against this reform which is unfair […] but that in no way justifies violence
”.
A fierce opponent of pension reform, Grégory Doucet also rejected part of the responsibility for this violence on the back of the government, in an interview granted Friday to La Tribune de Lyon: “
The
anger
caused by the way the government and the President of the Republic apprehended the pension reform was foreseeable, expected
”.
The town hall of the 4th arrondissement of Lyon was targeted on Friday evening during a rally against the pension reform project, which gave rise to other tensions in the city center and to 36 arrests, according to the prefecture.
Leaving from the center of Lyon at the start of the evening, where there were a few hundred of them, these young people, mostly far-left militants, then played cat and mouse with the police, breaking up into small groups in the streets. narrow.
They set fire to garbage cans, overturned scooters, smashed billboards and tagged shop windows, chanting: “
Whose is it?
Whose ?
It's ours !
".
They threw firecrackers, while the CRS responded with the use of tear gas.
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At the end of the evening, they attacked the town hall of the 4th arrondissement, on the plateau of the Croix Rousse.
After breaking the front door of the building, they managed to enter then they "
tried to set the fire
", but "
the police intervened quickly and succeeded
" in extinguishing it, according to the prefecture, which mentioned a “
vandalized town hall
”.
