The specter of conflagration is on everyone's mind.
While two teenagers aged 14 and 18 were fatally attacked last week in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), against a backdrop of tensions between different neighborhoods, the authorities increased calls for calm and strengthened measures of security.
The day after the death of Sedan, 14, stabbed during an altercation at the Basilique-de-Saint-Denis metro station, the socialist mayor of Saint-Denis, Mathieu Hanotin, issued an order prohibiting gatherings in the public space until Monday January 22 at noon, the objective being to avoid a “return match”.
“This attack takes place in a context of strong tensions between several young people (…).
Thirty-six people have been taken into police custody for five days.
Twelve are still there at the moment,”
explained the town hall at the end of the week.
She asked parents,
“as much as possible, to keep their children at home, to use this time for their…
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