Clashes erupted Thursday evening in the district of La Duchère, in Lyon, between the police and young people after a scooter accident which seriously injured a teenager from the district the day before.
According to the prefecture, six vehicles were burned and four people arrested.
A CRS company came to reinforce the police force deployed on the spot.
Brief clashes between the police and residents of a sensitive area of Lyon on Thursday evening after a scooter accident which seriously injured a teenager in the area the day before, we learned from corroborating 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, who said that calm returned around 8 p.m.
The # duchère at #Lyon today is something pic.twitter.com/89oOqrSaWn
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Six vehicles burned, four people arrested
According to the prefecture, six vehicles were burned and four people arrested.
A CRS company came to reinforce the police force deployed on the spot, she said.
According to the town hall these tensions "follow" the accident Wednesday of a 13-year-old 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.
According to the local press, young people from the neighborhood ensure that the scooter was pursued by an unmarked police car, which the prefecture has formally denied to AFP.
The # riots are spreading in #Lyon, La Duchère district: it is high time that this #gouvernent of incapacitated people primarily take care of dissolving the riots!
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"With an accident and a few rumors it can catch fire easily"
Mayor EELV Grégory Doucet, who visited the site, called for calm.
"We must continue to appease. Tonight it's gone up a notch. With an accident and a few rumors it can catch fire easily," he commented on
BFM Lyon
.
"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 our staff the opportunity to meet, to give them an explanation," he said. he assured
Progress
.
Contacted by AFP, the Lyon prosecutor was not available Thursday evening to comment on this information or to announce the opening of possible investigations into these facts.