Clashes between a hundred young people and police broke out in the sensitive neighborhood of Val Fourré, Mantes-la-Jolie, Thursday evening, during which a young man was wounded in the eye, learned Friday AFP from concordant sources.
The police were called around 23:30 for a vehicle on fire, and fell into what turned out to be an "ambush", said the Commissioner of Mantes-la-Jolie. For half an hour, a hundred young people clashed with about thirty police officers who used LBD and tear gas canisters to restore calm. The police officers were fired with mortars and stone throws in return.
The young man had to be operated
The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) was seized "on the conditions of use of weapons of defense by the police," said Friday the floor of Versailles. On social networks, a video was quickly relayed showing a young man, the bloody eye, presented as injured by a shot of LBD. An injury that would be the cause of clashes with the police, denounce several people who shared the video.
Two young men were admitted to the hospital shortly after the clashes, police said, "the first with an eye injury and the second with testicular pain". The 19-year-old wounded man had to be operated, the source said. On the side of the police, a policeman was injured in the thigh by a mortar fire. These clashes "violent by the number of people we had in front of us (...) are quite unusual," said the head of the Departmental Directorate of Public Security, Ludovic Kauffman.
A policeman injured by mortar fire
The public prosecutor's office confirmed that an official had been wounded "in the leg by a mortar fire". Investigations are under way to determine the origin of the wounds of the two young people, according to the same source. Similar events took place in Trappes, Les Mureaux, but "it was on Mantes that the ambush was the most violent", according to the commissioner of Mantes-la-Jolie.
An investigation was opened of the leaders of "violence with ambush, weapon and in meeting", "participation in a group formed for the commission of violence" and "outrages" on person depositary of the public authority, indicated the floor. An additional law enforcement facility is to be put in place from Friday night with the support of a CRS company.