- Violence broke out in several neighborhoods after a man was injured this Saturday in an accident involving a police car.
- So far, the incidents have remained relatively contained in sensitive neighborhoods and containment generally respected, observe the intelligence police.
- While drug trafficking is slowing down, the situation remains tense in certain districts where a significant proportion of the inhabitants live in overcrowded housing.
Confinement does not prevent certain sensitive cities from remaining under tension. During the night of Monday to Tuesday, clashes broke out in Strasbourg in two districts of the city and four people were arrested. In the Meinau district, several individuals have even tried to burn down the district town hall, apparently thinking of attacking a police station. "So far, it has been quite calm" in Strasbourg, explains to France Bleu Alsace Robert Herrmann, president of the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg and assistant to the mayor of the Alsatian capital in charge of security. But, remarks the elected official, "we are starting to feel mounting tension in the neighborhoods".
"There has been urban violence since the beginning of containment," says Linda Kebbab, national delegate of the union SGP police-FO unit. But there has been a little more in the past two days. In fact, this Saturday evening, a 30-year-old man who was riding without a helmet on a motocross bike had his left leg fractured after hitting the open door of an unmarked police car that was stopped at a Red fire. Since then, tension has escalated in several municipalities of Ile-de-France, including Hauts-de-Seine and Seine-Saint-Denis, where the police have been the target of jets projectiles, vehicles and garbage cans burned.
Falling drug trafficking
Until now, the incidents remained "relatively contained" in sensitive neighborhoods where confinement is generally respected by the population, notes the central territorial intelligence service in a note dated April 14, 2020, consulted by 20 Minutes . The agents stress that "the department of Yvelines is however experiencing recurrent tensions", notably in Chanteloup-les-Vignes, Mantes-la-Jolie, Les Mureaux or Trappes where police patrols have been taken to task. "In some districts, the police have been the subject of ambushes", as in Grigny in Essonne, in Rilleux-La-Pape in the Rhône, and in Bordeaux, write the police officers of the SCRT .
According to them, in Rennes, "significant tensions are perceptible in delinquent circles involved in drug trafficking". Because, since the beginning of containment, the activity of drug trafficking networks has slowed down. The stocks are starting to run out. Intelligence police thus observe "a scarcity of supply" as well as "price inflation of 30% or even 70%" according to the departments. It is also much more complicated for consumers to move around the cities to get their supplies. General secretary of the Alternative union, Denis Jacob believes that certain acts of violence that have erupted in recent days were aimed at "allowing offenders to reinvest in the streets to revive their businesses".
"They are bored, so they go out because the weather is good"
“In certain districts, the police presence is badly lived, as in Grigny, where colleagues were taken to task the day after a verbalization operation carried out by CRS. They are trying to reclaim their territory, ”also points out Linda Kebbab. In another note, dated April 9, 2020, the SCRT noted in particular that "controls prove to be complicated in popular districts of the Var, in particular in the cities Pontcarral and La Beaucaire in Toulon, as well as in the city of La Gabelle in Fréjus, where hostility towards the police is particularly significant ”.
"In sensitive neighborhoods throughout the territory, the police are always observing groups of young people favored by mild weather and weariness of isolation," add the SCRT police in this note. "I especially believe that the guys freak out, they are confined in small spaces, they get bored, so they go out because the weather is good and regroup in their neighborhood", analyzes an investigator contacted by 20 Minutes . All the more, adds this agent, “that there is a big police presence in the streets. If they go too far from home, they are likely to get fined. ”
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Denis Jacob ensures that "there is no outbreak of urban violence, as in 2005". In an interview with Le Monde , the socialist mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois, Olivier Klein, nevertheless believes that "it can go wrong at any time". "We are on a powder keg, the situation has been very tense since the start of confinement," explains the elected official. And the latter to conclude: "The spark can be hunger, it can be a young man injured in an accident involving the police ... All of this is standing up thanks to the work we are doing with associations. But for how long? "
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