France: Dijon recovers after four days of violence

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After the aggression of a young Chechen of 16 years old last Wednesday, this city of the east of France was the scene of several days of punitive expeditions carried out by the Chechen community against people of the Maghreb community.

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With our special correspondent in Dijon, Pierre Olivier

After four nights of violence, Dijon and in particular the Grésilles district have returned to their usual calm. Tuesday evening, around 11:30 p.m., RFI visited this district of Les Grésilles, a few kilometers from the city center. It was there that the clashes between the Chechen and Maghreb communities were filmed.

Life seemed to resume its normal course in this residential and residential area. Some young people gathered in small groups discussed here or there. And around the Gustave Eiffel high school, two mobile gendarmes were parked. All the same, proof of the violence of the past nights, there were still traces of molten plastic on the ground, due in particular to the garbage cans and vehicles which were burned.

But this Wednesday morning, the situation seems to have come back under control. It must be said that between 150 and 200 police officers and gendarmes have been mobilized as reinforcements for 24 hours after a controversy over the lack of staff present on the spot. Finally, we learned that there had been four arrests in the Grésilles district Tuesday afternoon, four Maghrebis who would have participated in the clashes.

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