New brawl between street vendors.
This Tuesday, it is around 6:30 p.m. when tension rises around the Porte-de-Clignancourt metro station (18th arrondissement) on metro line 4.
The first blows are exchanged on the surface but the fight moves and ends in the corridors of the station in front of frightened travelers.
Some protagonists are armed with knives, others with gas cans or sticks.
The police intervened but calm had already returned.
When they arrived, they discovered two men bleeding.
One was stabbed in the chest.
His days are not in danger.
He was transported to Lariboisière hospital (Xe) to undergo examinations.
The second has a wound on his head.
No vital prognosis for him either.
He was taken to the emergency room of Bichat hospital (18th century).
Both will be heard later in police custody for this mutual violence.
Because if they are victims, the police think that they also caused blows.
Man arrested with knife on him
The officers of the district joined by those of the Brav-M (brigade for the repression of violent actions) of the DOPC (directorate of public order and traffic) begin to tour the neighborhood in search of suspects.
They found three other men linked to this violent confrontation.
One of them has a bladed weapon on him.
All are placed in police custody within the walls of the 18th century police station in charge of the investigation.
Read also Chase away hawkers from the Champ-de-Mars before the Olympics, the risky promise of the police prefect
This is not the first time street vendors have been involved in fights.
Last November, a police officer fired his gun to stop a fight at Quatre-Chemins in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), a hot spot for street cigarette sales, injuring a man armed with a knife who had just come from it. stab another.
A year earlier, it was at the foot of the Eiffel Tower (7th century) that a brawl this time pitted young people against street vendors.
And in 2019, in the same area, a “scout” hit a police officer with a bag full of small Eiffel Towers.