The residents had expressed their fed up.
They must be satisfied to note that this Thursday, calm has returned to the Val de l'Aurence.
This working-class district of Limoges had been the scene of clashes during the two previous nights between dozens of hooded young people and the police.
The reinforced security system put in place "allowed a rapid return to calm in the district, without any new incident being deplored", indicates a press release from the prefecture of Haute-Vienne.
Maintained device
With its 64 CRS in reinforcement of the local national police, the device will be maintained in the coming days, adds the same source which "reaffirms that the violence which has occurred in recent days is intolerable".
In the nights from Monday to Wednesday, this priority classified district had been the scene of violent clashes.
A CRS had been slightly injured by mortar fire, three cars burned.
“Mostly dealers”
The violence began after the arrival of firefighters supported by the police to put out a car fire, greeted by jets of Molotov cocktails, firework mortars and projectiles of all kinds.
According to the secretary general of the prefecture, most of the troublemakers were young people aged 13 to 17, from sub-Saharan Africa and Mayotte.
The mayor LR of Limoges Emile-Roger Lombertie affirms for his part that the district is home to "really organized gangs, mainly dealers, organized around bands of Mahorais".
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