Gauthier Delomez 1:57 p.m., September 27, 2021, modified at 2:02 p.m., September 27, 2021

On Saturday, violence broke out between the participants of a wedding and the gendarmes in Méry-sur-Oise, in the Val d'Oise. Four soldiers were injured and three of their vehicles were damaged. On Europe 1, the mayor of the town Pierre-Édouard Eon complains of a situation "which has degenerated into hallucinating proportions".

A week after the multiple violations of the highway codes by a procession of bride and groom in Laigneville, in the Oise, another procession in Méry-sur-Oise, north-west of Paris, broke the law on Saturday several times.

On board sports cars, a hundred or so participants blocked the A16 motorway, then the departmental 44 and finally one of the main avenues of the small town of Val d'Oise.

The gendarmes followed them, then the situation turned into violence in the city center.

According to the department's gendarmerie, four soldiers were injured and three of their vehicles were damaged.

Invited on Europe 1, the mayor of the town Pierre-Édouard Eon regrets a situation "which has degenerated to hallucinating proportions".

Unstoppable "hordes of young people"

On videos posted on social networks, we can see projectiles, chairs and even ashtrays from a nearby bar starting to fly. The gendarmes responded with tear gas, before reinforcements arrived on the spot. In total, around forty soldiers intervened to restore the situation. The mayor says he attended the "event" in the front row. "The gendarmes were immediately taken to task by the hordes of young people," he explains on Europe 1.

Pierre-Édouard Eon continues that he could not have intervened this Saturday.

"It was impossible because it was a procession of about twenty vehicles. So there must have been about 80 people partying at the crossroads in the city center and who clearly had no intention of moving. at all."

An unusual situation in a "peaceful" town

The mayor of the municipality knows more about the profile of the participants.

"It was a 'community' wedding because they waved the flags of their countries of origin, Africa or the Maghreb. They came from the neighboring town of Méru, and they are quite customary as a result."

The city of Méry-sur-Oise has a castle with a large park, which was to be the meeting point for the procession of the bride and groom, specifies the mayor.

Pierre-Édouard Eon underlines the unusual character of such a situation in a "peaceful" town of 10,000 inhabitants, where residents were taken aback.

"They were flabbergasted, like me," he testifies.

"This is the first and, I hope, the last time that this happens to us," blows the mayor of the town.