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A police car in intervention, January 15, 2019, in Paris.
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Clément Follain / 20 Minutes
About 400 "Angry citizens" marched Saturday in Strasbourg to demand "more freedoms".
An event authorized by the prefecture on condition, as for the others and this for several weeks, that it takes place outside the island ellipse.
While the demonstration had already dispersed near the Regional Council, the police discovered a homemade explosive device not far from the square, reports the
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.
The device, composed of an aerosol and mortar, "can be very dangerous" confirms
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a police source.
This is "not something that we are used to seeing in Strasbourg demonstrations," adds the same source.
Were also found in the same place black hoodies, ski goggles, caps ... Everything could have been positioned there, "in reserve".
This discovery comes at a time when a call for a "coup d'etat action at the end of the demonstration" had been launched on social networks by some activists, specify the
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.
From Friday evening, one of the organizers had also been placed in police custody for provocation to commit crimes and misdemeanors electronically.
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