Le Figaro Nice
Tension scene, Monday evening in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), in the famously sensitive Moulins district.
A fight between numerous young hooded individuals broke out around 10 p.m., indicates the departmental directorate of public security.
Several shots were fired, we are told, without causing any casualties.
It all started with the sudden attack of a 20-year-old young man seated on a café terrace on the main square of Amaryllis.
Around ten people rushed at him and beat him with baseball bats.
He was found injured in the head with a significant bleeding wound.
He had taken refuge in the lobby of a building.
His vital prognosis is not in jeopardy.
The various police forces, quickly on the scene, managed to disperse the groups but were unable to make any arrests.
However, they had to come under three mortar attacks.
The police responded using bullet launchers and tear gas grenades.
None of them were injured and calm returned a little later in the evening.
Investigation for “attempted homicide”
The events occurred near a major drug sales point nicknamed “the laundromat”.
On site, three 12 caliber cartridges (for shotgun), a 9 millimeter case and two 7.65 millimeter cartridges were found.
Images of this brawl circulated on social networks, where we heard several gunshots and where we saw an individual being chased and then molested on the ground.
The deputy for the 1st constituency of Alpes-Maritimes and president of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti, relayed this video on his Twitter account.
The elected official evokes
“an outbreak of violence”
when his colleague from the 5th constituency, Christelle d’Intorni, even speaks of
“urban guerrilla”
.
“I refuse to allow Nice to turn into a favela!”
, snapped the parliamentarian.
An investigation into “attempted homicide” was opened and entrusted to the local judicial police section.
Last week, a similar scene, without gunshots, took place in the same location and the forces were able to arrest two suspects.
The last shots at Les Moulins dated back to February.
On March 12, a “clearance” operation made it possible to arrest thirteen people in connection with drug trafficking.