Three vehicles were set on fire on Saturday around 6 p.m. in Bron in the south-east of the Lyon metropolitan area.
Individuals also attacked a police van parked while agents were in intervention not far from there, according to the prefecture.
LyonMag evokes "ambushes have been extended to the police".
After clashes that affected the district of La Duchère on Thursday, in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon, then thirteen vehicles were set on fire on Friday evening in Rillieux-la-Pape, it was the district of Parilly in Bron which caught fire somewhat. , this Saturday.
According to actu.fr, a police car was destroyed.
The provisional report shows two cars set on fire and projectiles thrown at the police, according to this site.
"The rapid intervention of the police enabled the situation to be brought under control quickly", according to the regional prefecture.
New urban violence underway in the agglomeration of #Lyon as here in #Bron, in the district of Parilly where multiple fires have been lit.
Video @JDANDOU @lyonmag pic.twitter.com/VDtKhriFyG
- Lyon Mag (@lyonmag) March 6, 2021
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who had announced the dispatch of 200 police and gendarmes as reinforcements in the afternoon, announced that five people were arrested following this "unacceptable violence" or "21 arrests in total in the Lyon area in recent hours ”.
This evening, 5 arrests in Bron following the unacceptable violence.
21 arrests in total in the Lyon area in recent hours.
No act of violence can be accepted.
Support for police forces.
https://t.co/eohDtf68Wx
- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) March 6, 2021
Until late at night, the police had to cover this district of Bron, but also the city of Rillieux-la-Pape and the Lyon district of La Duchère.
The tensions emerged on Wednesday, when a 13-year-old was seriously injured in a scooter accident.
According to certain testimonies from residents published in the local press, the scooter was being chased by an unmarked police car - which the prefecture formally denies.
An investigation was entrusted to the IGPN into the circumstances of the scooter accident, and the Lyon public prosecutor's office indicated that it had opened an investigation into “research into the causes of the injuries” to determine “the exact circumstances of this accident”.
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However, the LR mayor of Bron, Jérémie Bréaud, had been the subject at the end of February of insults, physical threats and throwing projectiles.
His vehicle had been graveled.
Tuesday, Gerald Darmanin had granted him the protection of the personalities service.
"The mayor is protected by the Republic, so that he can go where he wants in his city, announce what he wants", added the minister to the deputies.
