Second consecutive night of violence in the Val de l'Aurence.
This district of Limoges was again the scene of clashes between a hundred hooded young people and the police on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday.
A CRS-8 police officer was slightly injured by mortar fire, and two individuals were arrested, said the secretary general of the Haute-Vienne prefecture Jean-Philippe Aurignac.
During the night of Monday to Tuesday, three cars were burned during the first clashes between the police and around forty individuals.
The clashes lasted nearly five hours, according to the prefecture, which denounces “unacceptable urban violence”.
"Truly Organized Bands"
The clashes had started after the arrival of firefighters supported by the police to put out a car fire.
Upon their arrival in this priority classified district, the police were greeted by jets of molotov cocktails, firework mortars and projectiles of all kinds.
According to the secretary general of the prefecture, most of the individuals opposed to the police during these two nights are young people aged 13 to 17, from sub-Saharan Africa and Mayotte.
“It is a district where the violent drift has been going on for years, with the structuring of really organized gangs, mainly dealers organized around bands of Mahorais”, commented to AFP the mayor LR of Limoges Emile-Roger Lombertie , which calls for additional police to deal with “these 70-90 people” seeking to be “totally masters” of this district of 2,500 inhabitants located in the far west of Limoges.
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