Rockets of fireworks, stones and a whole bunch of projectiles. Sunday evening, the Toulouse police officers called in reinforcement to secure the firemen on a car fire in the district of Mirail, were thrashed street of Kiev.
A veritable ambush was handed to them by around thirty people, their faces concealed. To extricate themselves from this situation, the police used tear gas and their defense ball launchers.
No injuries were identified, nor was an arrest made. A little later in the evening, when they intervened in front of the Bellefontaine police station to separate people fighting, members of the police force were again attacked by several young people.
Caught by the police at the Mirail: no confinement or restrictions for offenders. Only severe and dissuasive penalties will help limit this recurring distrust of authority.
- UNIT SGP OCCITANIE (@USGPOCCITANIE) April 20, 2020For the Unity-SGP police union, this urban violence is nothing new. “It's recurrent, but it more generally happens after one of our interventions to dismantle a traffic. There, the dealers no longer have customers or products. Idleness can cause this kind of situation, "laments Didier Martinez, his regional delegate. The latter does not think there is a mimicry with what could have happened during the weekend in Villeneuve-la-Garenne.
For him, only "the firmness" of the sanctions taken by the justice would be "truly dissuasive".
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