On the videos recovered by the regional daily, we can first see a little girl in tears in her mother's arms that the municipal police teams are trying to arrest.
"You the hell (sic) have no children?"
“Asks a local resident.
The mother seems to refuse to follow the police.
was accompanied by her little daughter on a bicycle.
On the videos recovered by the regional daily, we can see the municipal police officers trying to stop the mother holding her crying little daughter in her arms.
"You the hell (sic) have no children?"
», Asks a passer-by to the officials.
The mother seems to refuse to follow the police.
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In this shopping street, dozens of people gather to inquire about the situation.
Many film the scene, visibly outraged.
The mother screams, passers-by try to intervene and the situation quickly seems to degenerate.
As the police seem to want to seize the mother, scuffles erupt in a totally confused situation.
The cries of the little girl are heard.
Police reinforcements then arrive in large numbers.
Mother and daughter evacuated by firefighters
"Let her go, let her go", chants the crowd, while a passer-by tries to prevent the police from arresting the young woman.
On another video, we see a municipal policewoman handcuffing the mother who then poses her child, hanging on her arms.
While the agents obviously try to take the mother on board, she struggles with her little daughter, helped by the residents.
In the street, the crowd continues to grow with cries of "shameful, shameful!"
», Intended for police officers.
Faced with the proportions of this intervention and the disturbances caused, the little girl and her mother were finally evacuated by the firefighters, "in a state of shock", details the regional daily.
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According to La Voix du Nord, which cites witnesses on the spot, this mother was accompanying her young daughter by bicycle "when the little one would have hit a municipal police officer on foot on the sidewalk (some say she brushed against him with her handlebars, d other than she rolled over his foot). The latter would have pushed her by reflex. The mother "in excess of anger or surely fear", confides an onlooker, "would then have thrown a bottle of water in the face of the official". The daily reports the testimonies of residents, very moved and angry, who attended the scene. Asked, the city did not respond to the local daily.