An episode of tension erupted in the night from Monday to Tuesday in a city in Argenteuil, in Val-d'Oise.
Cars were set on fire and mortar fire targeted the security forces, causing no injuries.
It is in this city that Sabri lived, a young man who died a year ago, without any link being established at this stage between the two events.
Urban violence erupted in the night from Monday to Tuesday in a city in Argenteuil, in Val-d'Oise, where cars were set on fire and fireworks were fired at the police, a we learned from a police source.
Videos posted on social media show vehicles engulfed in flames, some of them overturned on the roof.
Firefighters intervened to extinguish these fires.
Many fireworks mortar fire targeted the security forces deployed on the spot, without injuring, said a police source.
This episode of tension takes place in the Val d'Argent, a vast working-class district regularly the scene of urban violence, in this city located north-west of Paris.
Sabri passed away a year ago
It is in this city that resided Sabri, who died a year ago to the day on May 17, 2020, without any link being established at this stage between this tragedy and the violence.
The 18-year-old died in a motorcycle accident near a police car in a nearby neighborhood.
The investigation was closed, the investigations confirming "the absence of intervention by a third party in the accident", according to the Pontoise prosecutor's office.
His relatives remain convinced that the Bac (anti-crime brigade) bears responsibility for the accident and have requested the opening of a judicial investigation.
A white march in his memory is also scheduled for this Saturday.