Urban violence took place Monday evening in Tourcoing, in the North, for the third consecutive evening.
While the police explain these clashes by the intensification of their fight against drug trafficking, the young people of the Red Cross district for their part evoke a "blunder".
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On the ground, a black mark reminds us that a car has recently burned down.
Mortar fire and firecrackers sounded all night long.
Since an evening marked on Saturday by projectiles being thrown at the police following an intervention for a rodeo, the Croix-Rouge district in Tourcoing has been the scene of urban violence.
The police and the town hall, held until the summer by Gérald Darmanin, explain these tensions by the fight against drug trafficking which has intensified in recent months.
But on the youth side, the word "burr" is on everyone's lips.
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"It's not good what the police are doing"
"Saturday, one of our friends was on a motorbike, stopped. A CRS truck hit him on purpose," describes a local resident. "There was a police blunder and it has nothing to do with narcotics," adds another. Between the young people and the police, the rupture is noted on both sides. Confinements and curfews did not help. "It's not what the police are doing. They see us well, we don't do anything wrong, we don't bother anyone, but they come anyway and verbalize us. They speak badly to us, they insult us. We start. to be fed up with it. "
"From there to swing mortars?" Replies a former mediator, respected in the neighborhood. "You prevent everyone from sleeping," he lectures. For the mediator, young people today feel "neglected". "The town hall does not help the neighborhoods, there is nothing left for young people," he sighs. Even the football club AS Virolois Croix Rouge, very popular in the past, has not existed for 6 years.