The police arrested five people on Saturday evening in Bron (Rhône), during new urban violence that has been taking place for three nights in the Lyon metropolis.
After clashes that affected the district of La Duchère on Thursday, in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon, then the fire of thirteen vehicles on Friday evening in Rillieux-la-Pape, it was the district of Parilly in Bron which gave rise to the problem. to the police on Saturday evening.
At around 6 p.m., individuals set fire to three vehicles and attacked a parked police vehicle while agents were intervening not far away, according to the prefecture.
According to the prosecution this Sunday, it was around 6:40 p.m. when a crew from the 8th arrondissement police station got out of their car to drop off a runaway minor at the children's home in Bron.
Passers-by informed them that a woman was injured and the three policemen advanced towards the place indicated to help her.
It was then that a handful of men dressed in black, "a group made up of thirty to forty individuals," said the prosecution in its press release
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all the face hidden by masks and hoods, rushes on the screen-printed vehicle.
Standing on the hood, as seen in videos circulating on social media, two men kicking the windshield apart.
Both fenders of the car are sunken.
A mortar is thrown into the passenger compartment, empty, we see it ignite.
The Alliance union posted photos on Twitter.
LYON: #policiers of a PS in Lyon 8 were attacked by about thirty individuals.
No injuries among the fdo but an administrative vehicle destroyed.
@villedelyon @Interieur_Gouv pic.twitter.com/uHw25wPg0B
- ALLIANCE PN (@alliancepolice) March 6, 2021
A crew of the BAC, called in reinforcement according to Le Progrès, would have been immediately the target of throwing projectiles.
"Once again it is an extreme minority of individuals who are embarrassed because we want to put an end to their petty trafficking and who have decided that retaliation is necessary", lambasted the mayor LR of Bron Jérémie Bréaud.
In office for one, the mayor has benefited for a few days from the protection of the personalities service granted by the Minister of the Interior after having already been targeted several times by threats due, according to him, to his desire to attack traffickers.
“In France, overall, it is often in the territories where the mayors decide to tackle the problem of insecurity head on that we take reprisals.
This is why we must not give in, ”assured the elected representative on RTL.
Among the five people arrested on Saturday evening, four are minors.
“The police worked all night.
21 arrests took place, including 5 in Bron ”, explained this Sunday morning the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin.
“This urban violence is notably explained by the fact that the police, for several weeks now, have been intervening and harassing the points of deal.
If there is urban violence, it is because we intervene, we challenge.
In the Lyon suburbs, very heavy traffic has been stopped.
The more deal points harassment there is, the more obviously there is a reaction from the dealers, but in the end it will always be the police who will win.
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IGPN has opened an investigation.