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Violence breaks out in Lyon after a serious accident of a young man on a scooter

2021-03-04T23:01:34.429Z


Twelve individuals were arrested on the sidelines of the clashes, which occurred in the district of La Duchère. This violence erupted on


The reasons for this rise in tension have yet to be clarified.

Brief clashes between the police and residents of a sensitive area of ​​Lyon on Thursday evening after a scooter accident the day before in which a local teenager was seriously injured, we learned from concordant sources .

According to the town hall, clashes pitted young people from the district of La Duchère, in the 9th arrondissement, in the early evening to police officers intervened after a series of arson of garbage cans and cars.

The police used tear gas, according to the same source, which specifies that calm had returned around 8:00 p.m.

With the Parisian, the prefecture announces a total of twelve arrests for six vehicles burned.

A CRS company came to reinforce the police force deployed on the spot, she said.

The town hall indicates that these tensions "follow" the accident Wednesday of a 13-year-old on a scooter in the same sensitive area.

The teenager, who was still hospitalized in a coma on Thursday, was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.

The prefecture denounces "fake news"

According to the local press, young people from the neighborhood ensure that the scooter was pursued by an unmarked police car, which the prefecture formally denies, in particular on social networks.

In a tweet, she "denied the #FakeNews suggesting that the police would be involved in a scooter accident that occurred yesterday".

“Conversely, the police intervened to secure the perimeter of the accident following a call to 17.

The prefect denies the #FakeNews suggesting that the police would be involved in a scooter accident that occurred yesterday.

Conversely, the police intervened to secure the perimeter of the accident following a call to 17. pic.twitter.com/BxquTwQgFt

- Prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Rhône region (@prefetrhone) March 4, 2021

"It seems that the scooter accident would have led to these tensions", declares for his part the EELV mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet, who went there around 8:00 pm.

“The amalgamation was probably made with the presence of a police crew, but it is a rumor.

The prefecture told me that this crew was present after the accident, ”he adds, calling for“ appeasement ”.

"We know a completely abnormal situation", for its part declared to Progress the principal of the high school La Martinière Duchère, in front of which the clashes took place.

"The boarding school continues to operate tonight (...), tomorrow (Friday, editor's note) probably, we will not resume classes to give the opportunity to our staff to meet, to give them an explanation," he said. - he assured of Progress.

Contacted, the Lyon prosecutor's office was not available Thursday evening to comment on this information or to announce the opening of possible investigations into these facts.

Source: leparis

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