Scenes of violence erupted this weekend and Monday in Dijon. Members of the Chechen community gathered there to avenge one of their own. A participant in these reprisals testified at the microphone of Europe 1, explaining that, if he is "not proud" of what he did, he wanted it to "serve as a lesson" to the aggressor of the young person of his community.

TESTIMONY

"I am not proud of what I did and what happened there." But he assumes it completely, however. A Chechen who participated in the violence that shook the city of Dijon this weekend and this Monday agreed, anonymously, to tell Europe 1 his vision of things. Dozens of members of his community have indeed carried out punitive expeditions in the sensitive district of Grésilles to, according to police sources, avenge the assault of a young Chechen of 16 years old.

The latter was allegedly "attacked" by dealers. "When a Chechen gets hit, we always come because we are in solidarity, we have to defend our own," explains the anonymous young man to Europe 1. "We Chechens, from a very young age, we were educated like that. is very few, only 1 million in the world, scattered everywhere. So if we are not united, we are lost. Especially when we are not in Chechnya, when we are away from home. "

"It's in our mentality, we don't like going to the police"

Explains to him that calling the police was unthinkable. "It's in our mentality, we don't like going through the police. We like to sort things out on our own." He also assures that the members of the punitive expedition had "no intention of doing damage around". "All we got were baseball bats, iron bars or sticks and that sort of thing. The idea was just to beat them up and that lesson we don't touch the Chechens. But we didn't intend to kill. "

Monday, a reinforcement of a hundred security forces was dispatched to Dijon, according to the prefecture, in order to deal with this "unprecedented" violence.