We do not deplore any injuries.
Several police officers patrolling in a sensitive district of Compiègne (Oise) have received stone throwing during three operations since Monday, we learned Thursday from the prosecution which indicates that a young man was arrested.
Monday evening, police wanted to control a vehicle parked at a stop sign.
The car fled to a square in Clos des Roses where "fifty" people gathered around to protect its occupants who fled.
It was then that the police received projectiles including "a piece of concrete", told AFP the public prosecutor Marie-Céline Lawrysz, confirming information from Cnews.
Around thirty people ran towards the police and threw stones in their direction.
On Wednesday afternoon, a surveillance patrol in the same neighborhood received pebbles and stones.
Around midnight, a patrol wanted to control a fast moving vehicle and refused to obey, fleeing.
About “thirty” people ran towards the police and threw stones in their direction.
A young man, born in 2002, was arrested Wednesday afternoon and taken into custody, suspected of throwing a stone and complicity in drug trafficking.
"New recruits paid to prevent the police from entering the neighborhood"
"The police are present every day in the neighborhood" and there are "in addition to anti-delinquency operations to destabilize drug trafficking", added the magistrate, reporting that "new recruits are paid to prevent the police from entering. in the neighborhood, by installing barricades, forcing them to get out of their vehicles ”.
“Since September, there have been 56 episodes of urban violence (…) and the police have been victims of mortar fire 22 times” in Compiègne, she said.
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