The departmental security of Var is investigating to determine what caused the violence that took place in Fréjus during the night from Saturday to Sunday. About fifteen businesses were damaged and three vehicles set on fire. Police unions believe the acts were premeditated. In the neighborhood, tension with the police has reigned for several weeks, against the backdrop of the dismantling of trafficking.
Two days after the urban violence perpetrated in Fréjus during the night from Saturday to Sunday, the investigation of the departmental security of Var continued on Monday to try to identify and find the perpetrators of these acts.
About fifteen businesses were damaged and three vehicles set on fire in urban violence.
Three policemen were slightly injured, while a police car was set on fire.
"Between 30 and 40 individuals started by lighting trash fires" on a large shopping street that runs along a sensitive neighborhood, national police reported to AFP.
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Some police officers evoke the hypothesis of an ambush
Some police unionists have evoked this weekend the hypothesis of an ambush, of a premeditated action. They are even convinced of it: for them, everything has been orchestrated, prepared. Because when they arrived on Saturday evening to put an end to the nuisances denounced by residents, the ten initial disruptors were quickly joined by 20, 30, 40 other people armed with projectiles and molotov cocktails. So much so that the police had to retreat, despite the fire from defense bullets and tear gas canisters. The municipal police of Fréjus, it even had to abandon one of its cars which was set on fire. "Kill them, kill them!", Some rioters would have shouted, according to a witness.
In this neighborhood, tension with the police has reigned for about a month and a half, against the backdrop of the dismantling of trafficking.
Two weeks ago, eight kilos of cannabis had in fact been seized in the neighborhood, the police said without making any connection with the events of the night.
Another sign of this tension: the surveillance cameras in the area were destroyed a few weeks earlier.
Sunday morning, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin indicated on Twitter that a CRS company, that is to say 70 police officers, would be deployed in reinforcement in Fréjus the same evening "to enforce the republican order".